How to Create a Loose Plot for your Novel or Story
If there’s one thing guaranteed to have writers banging their heads on their keyboards in despair it’s trying to find the fully formed plot for a novel. What can seem…
Read MoreDon’t Let the Bastards (or Your Background) Get You Down
It was a cold October night and a thin mist curled off the River Thames. My friend and I sat huddled outside the Festival Hall, drinking red wine and…
Read MoreYou Are Still a Writer
Sometimes it can feel like the hardest thing in the world to actually sit down and write. Sometimes it feels as if the whole world is conspiring to stop you…
Read MoreWriters: Create Believable, Interesting Characters with this Questionnaire
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.” Ernest Hemingway There’s nothing worse (in my humble opinion) than reading a…
Read MoreNew Book Deal News … and Why You Should Never Give Up on Your Dreams
Five years ago, I was browsing around the Young Adult section of the Waterstones store in Piccadilly. I’d just self-published my first novel for young adults, Dear Dylan, and my…
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