Help Authors Avoid This Character Description Mistake
The ultimate sin when describing characters in a novel: writing a long list of physical attributes that are mentioned once when charac...
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Should You Provide Feedback on a Novel While It’s Still Being Written?
Providing feedback while the author is still writing their first draft is a tricky thing. Because it takes so long to write a novel, i...
Read moreHow to Use Semicolons in Fiction
What is it about the semicolon that is so alluring to writers? Is it because it feels like a sophisticated punctuation mark – more adv...
Read moreHow Much Description Should a Novel Have?
Description is the seasoning that flavours a story. It’s the smattering of details that prevents a novel from feeling bland. In the sa...
Read moreWhat’s the Difference Between Omniscient and Third Person Narration?
Whether you’re a writer or an editor, it’s sometimes easy to get confused between omniscient and third person narration. O...
Read moreWriting Fairy Tales – What You Need to Know
In classic fairy tales, characters are often flat and the stories have a disgusting whiff of social control about them … Yet the...
Read moreWhat Makes a Good Steampunk Novel?
If you don’t know much about steampunk, you probably think this literary genre is just science fiction set in Victorian times. B...
Read moreHow to Write Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is a genre that has been pithily characterised as ‘high tech, low life’. Sure, it’s all about hackers and far-out tech, but ...
Read moreHow to Write Surrealist Fiction
Most of us are familiar with surrealist images like Salvador Dali’s Three Sphinxes of Bikini, but even though surrealism was – and sti...
Read more6 Kinds of Apocalypse to Inspire Your Writing
Post-apocalyptic fiction follows the fortunes of characters as they try to cope in a post-apocalyptic world. Sounds deceptively simple...
Read moreHow to Write Dystopian Fiction
Dystopias have provided inspiration for generations of writers, and with good reason. When you become a writer of dystopian fiction, y...
Read moreHow to Write Alternative History & Alternative Reality
Do you spend large chunks of time wondering what the world would have been like if the Roman Empire had never ended or if you’d ...
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