• Starting From The Beginning — How to get your hooks into the reader with a great first line.
• Avoiding Punchlines — How to take a generic twist or surprise ending and make it satisfying.
• Defeating Writer’s Block: You Gotta Have Faith — Getting out of your rut (with a little help from George Michael).
• Kill Your Darlings (Or At Least Make Them Wish They Were Dead) — It’s good to have nice characters every now and then, but that doesn’t mean you have to be nice to them.
• Great Characters: Perfecting Imperfection — And sometimes it’s good to have not-so-nice characters too.
• What’s Worse Than Writer’s Block?  — A hint: George Michael can’t help you with this one.
• Living and Breathing: Crafting A Believable Story World  — Make your story world seem real, and nine times out of ten the rest will follow (unsourced statistic).
• Don’t Leave Out The Music: Writing For Sound  — How to make your writing sound good (literally). 

I tackle new articles from time to time (more accurately, when I have the time between my day job and my fiction) so if there’s an area of writing you have trouble with or wonder about, drop me a line and let me know! I’m always looking for new topics to explore:  brian@pinionpost.com