Kristen Tate 10/9/22 Kristen Tate 10/9/22

What can verbs do for you?

See how Maggie O'Farrell uses inventive writing to lure readers into a story whose ending we think we already know.

Kristen Tate 3/26/22 Kristen Tate 3/26/22

How do you get maximum value from setting and description?

Examples from Tana French's The Searcher show how to give your descriptions additional meaning and resonance.

Kristen Tate 3/12/22 Kristen Tate 3/12/22

Learn how to use word choice, syntax, and dialect in dialogue to create realistic characters with examples from Tana French's The Searcher.

Kristen Tate 4/24/21 Kristen Tate 4/24/21

Highlights from the 2021 ACES conference.

Kristen Tate 10/20/19 Kristen Tate 10/20/19

Jessica Morell’s exploration of common problems in fiction and how to solve them.

Kristen Tate 6/16/19 Kristen Tate 6/16/19

If you are a novelist looking to improve your sentences, Brian Shawver’s The Language of Fiction should be on your reading list.

Kristen Tate 4/28/19 Kristen Tate 4/28/19

How to play with words: lessons from Constance Hale’s Sin and Syntax.

Kristen Tate 3/16/18 Kristen Tate 3/16/18

Is it “alright” or “all right”? The short answer: it depends. I’ll give you the details, so you can decide what is right for your context.