How to increase your word count when writing fiction.

For your stories, you are the director, casting director, markup artist, and lighting technician.

The narrator does the unappreciated job of revealing the truth that the characters can't see.

What did your mother always tell you?  “Don’t make a scene.”  She was wrong. 

I think critics who use the phrase "Show, don't tell" are charlatans.

Beginning writers must learn that their readers can’t visualize what the author sees and feels unless the author tells them.