This is the final post of my month-long Writer Igniter Reading Challenge. It's the first time I've read and analyzed a story with...

I'm at the end of the book, The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen and deciding whether it was satisfying or not. Did the...

In this prompt, we are asked to drill down the book's theme to a "fortune cookie saying" and suss out what is giving the story meaning....

We've landed at the middle of the book, and it's time to ask: "Is the protagonist succeeding or failing?" At the midpoint, there should...

In this prompt, the task is to decipher who the supporting cast is and their role in the story. We are doing this by using the diyMFA...

The inciting incident is the defining moment that propels the protagonist and the story forward. Outside forces push the main character...

Just say, TADA! In this post, I'm diagnosing a character in the book I'm reading using diyMFA's Character Compass tool. The four elements...

In this prompt, we seek to discover the five promises the writer makes to the reader in their book's opening pages: character, world,...

Emily Benedict stepped out of a cab and into the picturesque yet strange southern town of Mullaby in the first scene of The Girl Who...

When I decided to do this challenge, I already had a book in mind. But after considering what I hoped to achieve, I reconsidered and...

I learned about Gabriela Pereira's DIY MFA program and writing community from a session she hosted at the 2020 Writer's Digest Novel...