You can possess your readers by mastering only one technique. 

Most movies are eerily similar to other movies.  Nearly all romantic movies are the same story.

The idea that stories must have an exciting, action-packed beginning is false.

Subtlety allows readers to think something else is going on, something hiding, something faintly suggested.

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

If everything else is idealized in fiction, why can’t women be, also?

A common problem beginning authors have when writing in first person is to overuse the word, “I.”

To keep a steady pace, you must keep an unsteady pace.

It's your job as the author to answer questions, not the reader's.

Few articles are written about how to get fictional characters to act. This article explains how to do it.

When your prose is effective, your readers will become someone else in a different time and place.

If you asked fifty people if a story about monsters eating people's faces is science fiction, you will receive fifty yesses.

I must be careful because this topic strikes a nerve with the great literary fiction types, the self-proclaimed wise-above-all pedagogues.