Have you ever baked a cake and you felt it was so good that you wanted to eat the whole thing in one day? Sometimes editing your own work can be like that. Fantasy fiction writers do get away with the “beauty” of what they have just written, thinking they need to...

Anyone who has read or watched Harry Potter, Lord of The Rings, The Hunger Games Riverdale or 13 Reasons Why will understand how important supporting characters are in a story or series. They contribute a lot to the plot and to the primary characters’ development....

In almost every book I’ve read, there has always been that one character everyone loves to hate and whose punishment or death readers anticipate until the very end of the story. Of course, I’m talking about the antagonists. In my opinion, a story without an...

A good story will never stand out without a protagonist, hero, or main character (whatever the term). Even the Bible stories and Aesop’s Fables feature some sort of protagonists. The story makes the protagonist, and vice versa. But what is a good protagonist? A good...

Writing fantasy fiction is a tough mental exercise (and editing the whole manuscript is tough work too). But it’s already a tough process from the start: thinking of what story to write about, what theme or plot device to use, how to describe the characters and...