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 My Novel Have?
Description is the seasoning that flavours a story. It’s the smattering of details that prevents your novel feeling bland. In the same...
Read moreWhat Kind of Writer Do You Want to Be?
Deciding what kind of writer you want to be is important, but it’s not something most fiction writers think too deeply about. I’m not ...
Read moreHow to Write Powerful Metaphors
Metaphors are powerful weapons in your writing arsenal. (See what I did there? That was a metaphor.) A thoughtfully written metaphor u...
Read moreHow to Write a Novel Without a Villain
Every novel needs conflict, and every novel needs antagonistic forces. But this doesn’t mean you need a villain (a person who ac...
Read moreHow to Use Coincidence in Fiction
Years ago, I was staying in a tiny traditional guest house in South Korea for a few days on my two-week journey around the country. Wh...
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 ...
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