Can you write a book in Google Docs? You can, but whether you should depends on a few things. In this post, I’m giving you my best tips for writing your novel with Google Docs and I give you a few alternatives in case you’d rather go with something else. What is Google Docs anyway? …
We talk a lot about writing protagonists here at Protagonist Crafts, but today we need to talk about how to write a good antagonist. An antagonist isn’t necessarily an evil person who does bad stuff “just because”. There should be characters in your story who support your protagonist and who oppose you protagonist, and an …
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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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 …
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 …
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 structure simply because they’ve been exposed to it their entire lives …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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