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 …
The best books about writing to make you a better writer Read More »
There are different methods of outlining your 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. But how should you outline a …
My methods of outlining that make writing your book a breeze Read More »
Was one of your new year’s resolutions to write your first novel in 2023? If so, you’ve come to the right place! Now, New Year might have been months ago, but that doesn’t mean you get to waste the rest of the year. Read these tips and get all my best resources and you can …
Outlining a novel might not be everyone’s favourite part of the writing process but it doesn’t have to be difficult or complicated. As much as I love writing a scene outline for every scene in my stories, you might want to choose something simpler. A detailed outline will also be a lot easier to create …
We’ve talked about the editing process on this blog before but not about how to know when your book is finished. There are no exact answers, but with these editing tips, you can decide for yourself when to stop working on your future best-selling novel. So how many times should you edit your novel? And …
This might be a controversial opinion, but perhaps you don’t need a daily writing routine after all. Would it help? Definitely! But do you need to give up on writing if you can’t manage it? Absolutely not. We’re all different, which doesn’t only mean that our lives are different. Our brains are different, too. Different …
I’ve written posts about the process of writing a book before, but I understand that my readers might still have questions about exactly how to start writing a book. As is usually the case with writing books, there isn’t just one way to do it, and as long as you end up with a finished …
How to start writing a book (and finish it, too) Read More »
Outlining a novel might not be the right thing for every writer, but I firmly believe that it’s the best way to stay efficient and write a cohesive story without the headache of rewriting your book a million times. Making a story work is so much easier (or at least quicker and less labour-intensive) before …
Should you write a scene outline for your novel? Read More »
You might already know that writing your first draft is just one of the first steps to writing a novel, but what should you do after that? Editing a book sounds like such a big undertaking and it can seem like so much work that it would be easier to not write anything to begin …
There are so many things that writers can do instead of writing, and some of them are actually useful. Although I don’t want you to get sucked into browsing Pinterest for hours and kidding yourself that it counts as writing, learning how to make a moodboard for your novel can be a useful exercise that …