Category: Writing Tips

• How to Write Our Best Short Fiction: Using the MICE Quotient

  With the Adventure Writing Contest coming up, I want to make sure I provide you with easy, accessible tools and information to write the best short story you can! So, I’ve been digging around the internet for helpful advice, and I came across this great podcast that I’ve been missing out on. Seriously. Missing out!…

  Rachael Ritchey

  February 16, 2018

  I think it’s neat, Writing Tips

  adventure, Answer, Ask, Character, contest, Event, fantasy, featured, fiction, main character, Mary Robinete Kowal, mice, MICE Quotient, Milieu, Orson Scott Card, scifi, short fiction, short story, WIP, write, writer, writing, writing contest, Writing Excuses

• Podcasts for Writers

  This is not an exhaustive list of podcasts. In fact, it’s only a few, and I’d love to know what writerly podcasts you listen to. I listen on Stitcher on my phone. So, this limits the ones I have access to, since I don’t have iTunes, and some podcasts haven’t expanded their reachability. Stitcher is easily…

  Rachael Ritchey

  January 12, 2018

  My Writing Journey, Writing Tips

  featured

• Ideas to Help Write Better Characters

  In honor of the upcoming Adventure Writing Contest that starts the end of February (click here for more info) I want to help writers by offering info and websites that will hopefully help us all be better writers. That’s the goal. Today we’re going to look at Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (click here for more detailed…

  Rachael Ritchey

  January 11, 2018

  Writing Tips

  believable characters, Character, character building, character needs, characters, featured, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, motivation, needs, psychology, writing characters