Write a story to be read out loud, a family story you’ve told many times before.

Ideas on how to weave the weather into the emotional substance of your story.

What are nonverbal emotions? All those teeny tiny physical clues that reveal how your characters experience a moment or a scene.

Here's another piece of writing advice from Chuck Palahniuk - write from within the point of view of your characters not about them.

Write a story, from memory or imagined, exploring a sense of taste or smell.

Try this wonderful advice from Chuck Palahniuk in his book on writing Consider This, on building tension in your scenes.