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How to Write When You’re Not In The Mood

You’re at this site, reading this article, because you’re a writer. Whether or not you’ve had your writing published isn’t important. What is important is that you continue to write. Being disciplined to write regularly, particularly when you’re not in

Flavia Young

7 Steps To Plan & Organise Your First Draft

Perhaps Ernest Hemingway was being dramatic when he said ‘There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed.’ But writing a novel is a momentous undertaking that will challenge your imagination, your will,

Aden Curran

How To Write A Killer First Page For Your Novel

There are millions of things going on these days that divert our attention from what matters. Scrambling to reply to that email… Hitting ‘play’ on the next episode of your latest binge watch… It’s no surprise that our attention spans

Keionda Lewis

15 Awesome Ideas To Get Your Story Started (With Examples)

There are many great ways to start a story. Depending on the genre, you might begin mysteriously and gradually build to a climax. Or you might start with an image or description to orient the reader in the story’s setting.

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6 Lessons I Learned From The Beta Reading Process

Sending my novel out for beta reading was potentially the most terrifying part of my writing career to date. As a Creative Writing graduate, I’m no stranger to critique; workshopping my writing with peers was basically all I did for

Jessica A. McMinn

5 Fresh Ways To Interact With Your Readers

Gone are the days where authors were considered distant, untouchable, borderline mythical creatures by their readers. Thanks to the rise of the online author platform, these days authors – especially indie authors – are interacting directly with readers more than

Claire Bradshaw

How To Promote Your Indie Book With An Awesome Blog Tour

We’ve extolled the virtues of working with book bloggers before, and for good reason. Engaging with the book blogging community is a smart move for authors – especially indie authors, whose book marketing and promotion is entirely their own responsibility.

Claire Bradshaw

5 Key Reasons Indie Authors Should Use Goodreads

If you’re an avid reader, you probably already have a Goodreads account. But if you’re an indie author, you might not yet have utilised Goodreads as a tool for book promotion. In case you haven’t heard of it, Goodreads is a

Claire Bradshaw

3 Easy Tricks For Improving Dialogue In Fiction

Think dialogue is just a case of he said, she said? Wrong. Dialogue is much more than a to-and-fro between characters; dialogue is the backbone of your narrative. In a single conversation between characters you can snag a reader and reel

Maggie Doonan

5 Quick Tips For Crafting Believable Characters

Do you ever find yourself with characters who are too flat? Or notice that you’re spending far too much time writing plot but still struggle with your characters’ motivations? Whether you’re a published author or an aspiring one, character building

Search result for: “writing prompt”

How to Write When You’re Not In The Mood

Flavia Young

7 Steps To Plan & Organise Your First Draft

Aden Curran

How To Write A Killer First Page For Your Novel

Keionda Lewis

15 Awesome Ideas To Get Your Story Started (With Examples)

Writer's Edit

6 Lessons I Learned From The Beta Reading Process

Jessica A. McMinn

5 Fresh Ways To Interact With Your Readers

Claire Bradshaw

How To Promote Your Indie Book With An Awesome Blog Tour

Claire Bradshaw

5 Key Reasons Indie Authors Should Use Goodreads

Claire Bradshaw

3 Easy Tricks For Improving Dialogue In Fiction

Maggie Doonan

5 Quick Tips For Crafting Believable Characters

Amanda Fink

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