by Joni M Fisher | Apr 21, 2025 | Writing Life
Have you heard of the 540 Writers Community? The 540 Writers Community—a faith-based 501c3 nonprofit—exists to educate, encourage, and equip writers to create clean, clear, compelling, life-changing content. The 540 Writers Community seeks to help underserved writers...
by Joni M Fisher | Jan 31, 2025 | Writing Tips
It has always been true that avid readers become better writers than their non-reading peers. Readers unknowingly gain an innate understanding of storytelling, a flourishing vocabulary, and vast knowledge about topics beyond their personal experience. As a published...
by Joni M Fisher | Jan 20, 2025 | Writing Life
Once the urge strikes to compose a novel, I draft a rough outline and launch into research. For my third novel this meant learning about boats–specifically Trawlers. Part of the story takes place on a trawler, so I needed to understand how they operate,...
by Joni M Fisher | Jan 15, 2025 | Writing Tips
Dialogue without conflict is talking heads. There, I’ve got it out in the open. In commercial, or genre fiction, dialogue makes up half of the novel with narration as the other half. This is why learning to craft great dialogue matters. Inexperienced writers tend to...
by Joni M Fisher | Jan 13, 2025 | Writing Tips
People recognize terrible dialogue when they hear it in movies, or on television or read it in books. It comes off wooden, robotic, confusing, lecturing, boring, or in some way artificial sounding. Examples abound in B-grade movies, comic books, soap operas, and...