Finding Theme
Alida helps you find the theme of your work in this week’s Flash Tip.
Flash Tip: Group Projects
I’ve noticed in several manuscripts recently that writers are sometimes afraid to show the reader what the hero and her team are planning to do, especially when our hero is about to go into the climactic battle. When you need the group to do some serious...Reader Empathy
Alida explains why your story will fail if you don’t write in such a way that you engage reader’s empathy. Watch the Embody Your Character video here. Have thoughts, comments, or questions? Post them below in the comments section or head over the...Flash Tip: You Only Get Two
Alida discusses pet words and how they can damage your prose. The answer? Kill them. Kill them all…but two.
Hooks & Endnotes
This week, Alida discusses the common problems of writing past your hooks & killing your endnotes. Not sure what a hook is or why you need one? Watch & learn!
I'm Alida
I help people express their gifts to the world.
I do not believe in formulas. I believe that the stories we are compelled to tell the world make demands on us, and it is our privilege to meet those demands in order to reach the most people in the most authentic and compelling way possible.
