Story Structure: The Ultimate Guide (With Graphs!)
Vanilla Grass’s ultimate writing resource on story plot structure. Story Structure If you’ve just begun to dip your toe into the world of creative writing,…
How to Knock Your 1st Editor Phone Call Out of the Park (7 Questions + Quick, Helpful Tips)
The first call with your editor doesn’t need to be stressful. Debut author, Heather Clark, gives her experience and some tips on how to knock it out of the park.
Need a Writing Boost? 5 Spring Cleaning Tips for Writers!
Need a writing boost? Great! Because it’s that time of year again! Spring Cleaning! But what does spring cleaning for writers mean exactly? The same…
Quick Writing Tips (#8 – Watch Your Adjectives)
Improve Writing through proper adjective use Thanks for joining us today for Tips to Improve Writing (#8 – Watch your Adjectives). You may be wondering…
How to Be Specific in Your Writing: 2 Reasons Why + Examples
You know how sometimes people write stuff and it just doesn’t really, you know, sit right? There’s just something off, unquantifiable but everpresent? Perhaps it’s…
Quick Writing Tips (#7 – Tighten Sentences)
If you’ve landed here at Vanilla Grass for the first time, this post is part of a bi-weekly series, and this week’s Tips to Improve Writing…
How to Write a Chapter – a Checklist for novels
Why do I need a How to Write a Chapter Checklist? Recently I started plotting another story and although I’ve written close to a dozen…
Quick Writing Tips (#6 – Don’t Start with Dialogue)
Tip #6 to Improve your Writing: Don’t Start with Dialogue I know I’ll get backlash for including Tips to Improve Writing (#6 – Don’t Start…
9 Things You Need to Know if You Love a Writer
Do you know a writer? What about someone who wants to be a writer? If this bit of a downer article by the New York…
How to Create Effective Writing Goals – Guest Post
Thanks for stopping by. Today we’re thrilled to showcase this guest post from the lovely writing sherpa Janelle Youngstrom on Creating Effective Writing Goals. Do…
Illustrators: 3 Things Every Graphic Novelist Needs to Know (+ Examples!)
Graphic novels! They’re all the rage right now and for good reason. They usually involve tales of plucky heroes, a gang of friends, and amazing…
