Writers Coping with ADHD
This time, I'm focusing on a very specific struggle: the ADHD writer.
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- Mar 24
- 6 min
Worlds Build Plots: How Settings Create Page Turning Books
If your main characters are the cornerstone of your novel, then the world-building stands as the keystone locking in everything else...
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- Mar 3
- 7 min
Cardboard Characters Impede Plot
Of all the aspects of fiction writing, character creation is the cornerstone of any story. It allows for a focused exploration within the na
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- Nov 26, 2023
- 8 min
Transform Your Novel from Wimp to Warrior
Sometimes, it’s a better strategy to slow down, take measure of the landscape, and judge where your shots are best targeted.
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- Jan 30, 2022
- 8 min
The Problem With YOU.
It was a common opinion that you simply do not write in second person POV. No one really went into detail about why. It was one of those typ
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- Mar 28, 2021
- 4 min
The Secret of Using Story Goals to Maximum Effect.
Your story will have many problems that arise – Fred not having any peanut butter is a problem, but it’s not THE problem
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- Jan 24, 2021
- 8 min
World-building: More Than Just a Setting
Whereas a setting provides the physical environment for the scene, world building adds the abstract. It encompasses the setting while also
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- Sep 28, 2020
- 7 min
Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival Highlights
The industry panellists in the crime writing master class: Oli Munson, literary agent; Alex Saunders, Fiction Editor at Pan Macmillan; Vikki
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- May 24, 2020
- 4 min
Time Travel - What's Wrong With It?
I always go into a submission with an open mind, but lately, when time travel becomes the obvious subject matter, I find myself groaning...
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- May 3, 2020
- 7 min
Please, Make Something Happen!
Have something happen in your story. Seems obvious, yes? And yet, we receive so many stories at the mag where this is not the case.
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- Feb 16, 2020
- 8 min
Is it Ever OK to Stereotype Fiction?
But the other thing a stereotype does within a reader is to trigger their prejudices without them even realising it, and you can play on tha
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- Dec 22, 2019
- 7 min
Character Development: A Christmas Carol.
Without his characterisation such as it is, the ghosts would never have visited, meaning the plot would never have taken its first steps for
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- Oct 27, 2019
- 6 min
NaNo: The Ultimate Guide P3 - Keep Momentum Moving
Our preceding posts this month have emphasised the need for planning in order to succeed at reaching our 50k goal in November. But no...
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- Oct 20, 2019
- 5 min
Nano: The Ultimate Guide - P2 - Schedule
WriMo’s Ebbs and Flows NaNoWriMo tends to have its own pacing structure that many-a newbie unwittingly falls into. Here is an idea of...
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- Oct 13, 2019
- 6 min
NaNo: The Ultimate Guide
Success is All About Preparation If you are not familiar with NaNoWriMo, its name stands for National Novel Writing Month, or more...
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- Sep 23, 2018
- 4 min
Quick Writing Q & A + New Class!
What is the most important point to consider when writing a mystery?
How do I create a three-dimensional character?
What is the purpose of a
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- Jun 11, 2018
- 8 min
Is My Writing any Good?
It’s a question every writer asks themselves and yet it can be one of the most elusive answers to obtain. Why? Most of us can string a...
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- Mar 18, 2018
- 6 min
Creating Characters You Can Touch
If you haven't explored who your characters are, how do you know what decisions they will make? How will you know what markers to use? H
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- Feb 4, 2018
- 6 min
This is the End, My Friend...
Your climax is what your whole story should be building towards, and the conflict and tension should be rising up like a wave ready to crash
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- Dec 17, 2017
- 3 min
Creativity or Nativity? Making Time to Write.
Sticking to a writing routine at Christmas is probably the hardest thing. Well, who around here is busy, busy, busy? In all honesty,...
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