Historical fiction writing tips, freelance writing tricks and general writing help.
Let’s be honest: sometimes as writers, we treat setting like stage scenery. It’s there in the background while our characters talk and act, but it doesn’t really do much. Here’s … Continue reading Settings as characters: how settings can supercharge your story
One of the hardest parts of being a writer is receiving negative feedback on a piece of work you’ve poured your heart and soul into.
But in today’s article, I’m going to let you in on a little secret that’ll help you turn that negative feedback into positive growth. That’ll help you use it to improve your craft, and better your writing.
Today I’m going to take a look at what “show, don’t tell” actually means, and more importantly how to successfully make use of it in your own writing.
Today I’m going to take a look at how to deal with the imperfection of a first draft, and how to ignore the voice in your mind that says “it’s awful! Throw it all in the bin!”
Maintaining motivation can be challenging, but it’s not impossible. So if you’ve found your want for writing waning, or simply found yourself staring into space more than filling pages with words, then let’s take a look at five things you can do to help ease yourself out of that slump.
Today, I’m going to share the story of how I went from writing sentences stuffed full of adverbs, to being able to tell you that my debut novel, The Lamplighter’s Bookshop, will be published by HarperFiction in 2025!
This week we’re talking dialogue: how to make your characters’ conversations enthralling, how to pack them full of tension and conflict and how to ensure each conversation works overtime!
This week we’re talking characters and three simple ways to make your characters more loveable.
This week we’re going to talk about how to find your writing stride, how to figure out what kind of a writer you are and how to capitalise on it.
This week, we’re looking at how to structure your story – which is a pretty large undertaking for one post, so that’s why we’re going to focus on the overall structure of a story, what that looks like and how to get familiar with it if you’re new (or new-ish) to writing books.
Ideas are fickle things but anyone who has felt the itch to write has likely felt the mental knock of an idea. The problem is, ideas rarely come to us as fully fledged book plans. So let’s take a look at how to find them:
The first post in my #52WritingTips project, because there’s 52 weeks in a year and I really need to get better at updating this blog. Across the year, I’ll be pulling together 52 writing tips to help you get your dream on paper, edit that manuscript or summon the courage to submit your work. This week, we’re looking at beginnings, and where to find them.
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