Although I’ve been writing stories ever since I learned to write, I hadn’t considered reading books about writing or intentionally learning anything about the craft until a few years ago. I do not exaggerate at all when I say it changed my life. My writing life, of course, but also my life in general when […]
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There are loads of opinions about writing character appearance so it can be confusing trying to understand what’s the right way to do it. Should you mention appearance at all? Do you need fancy words to describe the colour of someone’s eyes? In this post, I’ll tell you what really matters when you describe character
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I’m probably not wrong thinking you could do with a little extra money, whether it’s some pocket money for extra purchases (books and coffee, right?) or something that will actually keep your cats fed through winter. But how can you turn your love of books into making extra money online? This is not an MLM
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For many of us, every month is a novel-writing month, but there’s just something special about participating in National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo. If you, too, would like to reach fifty thousand words written this November, read this guide to winning NaNoWriMo for the best tips and tricks that help you succeed
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If you’re participating on National Novel Writing Month – also known as Nanowrimo or just Nano – it would do you well to spend the previous month preparing for the event. And what do we call such a month? Preptober, of course! Writing fifity thousand words in 30 days is a big ask even for
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A non-writer recently told me that you basically have to be rich or retired to have the time to write books, and I was slightly confused because I’m not yet either of those things. And here I am, writing novels anyway. Weird, right? I have to be honest, though: I don’t have a day job
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I’ve had my old, classic Kindle since 2012 so I’m not one to get a new Kindle every time they come up with a new edition. Knowing that, I think it says something that I got immediately excited about the Kindle Scribe when I first heard about it. I admit: Scribe apparently came out in
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There’s a lot of advice floating around on the internet about writing dialogue and not all of it is great. I mean, did you know real people stutter? And they use filler words a lot?? Yeah, I bet they do, but that has nothing to do with writing. In this post, we’re going to talk
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I’ve written about choosing the right character names before but I get a lot of views from people searching for ideas for character names, so I figured I needed to do something about that. Choosing names for your characters isn’t always easy and sometimes you just need someone to tell you what to do so
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