Summer is my favourite season and it can be fun to write about, but how can you do it well? Here are some writing tips and inspiration for including summer in your stories. In this post, you can find tips for writing a story that ONLY takes places in the summer as well as including […]
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Point of view is one of the first things you should think of before you start writing your novel. It’s literally impossible to write a story without any point of view, so you need to know what yours is right from the beginning. In this post, you learn what the points of view in fiction
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Many new writers resist the idea of story structure, but when they finally learn about it, they realise it actually solves most of their problems with plotting their stories. I was one of those writers once. While many people have an innate sense of basic novel structure simply because they’ve been exposed to it their
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Summer can be a wonderful chance to write your own summery romance novel. But how do you go about doing that? In this post, I give you some pointers for how to write your dreamy summer romance and I share my best resources for writing love stories that make your readers go squee (or some
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You can’t have stories without conflicts, or more simply put, without problems. Cozy slice-of-life short stories are one thing, but if you’re writing a novel, you need one big problem and then smaller problems along the way. That’s how you make a story. But what are good conflict ideas for stories that you could use
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There are different methods of outlining a novel and no method is more correct than the other. I’m well aware that not every writer likes to outline their story beforehand, but I firmly believe that outlining your book is the best way to avoid writer’s block and unnecessary rewrites. The way I like to outline
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If you want to write a book with no experience in writing fiction, this post shows you where to start. If you already have some experience in writing stories, you can jump straight to part 2: Writing a book for the first time. Although I’ve been writing stories for as long as I’ve been able
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Becoming a better writer is an ongoing project. There’s always more to learn about writing great stories. If you only ever focus on writing full novels without taking the time to do different writing exercises, you’re missing out on opportunities to practise your writing skills and to improve as an author. Imagine if a runner
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I recently polled some of my writer friends and almost everyone agreed that coming up with a title for your story is hard. Finding the right title is important because a bad or boring title might turn readers away, and having a title that is too generic will harm your searchability. If you’re also one
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I don’t know about you, but Valentine’s Day always comes up as a sort of surprise for me every year. I mean, wasn’t it JUST New Year’s Day, like, yesterday? No? But even if it was, it’s never too soon to start looking for Valentine’s Day gifts for book lovers. If you still haven’t got
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