Category: How To and Tips
Novel writing tips: How to keep your novel on track
Best selling author Lisa Wingate shares her novel writing tips with us. Last year, for the September release of The Prayer Box, I traveled on a six-week book tour. My plan was to have the first draft of my 2014 novel finished and turned in to editorial by mid-August, when the release events for the […]
Marketing your Novel: Prepare in Advance!
When you’re constantly receiving rejection letters from publishers or agents, the last thing you’re probably thinking about is publicizing a novel you can’t even seem to sell. Before I continue, let me stop a moment and give this very loud and clear disclosure: nothing, nothing, NOTHING, matters more than writing a killer book. Spend 99 […]
How do stories come to you?
We asked on Twitter, you answered! How do stories come to you? Do you visualise them or do you actually hear the words? — Women Writers (@WomenWriters) July 28, 2014 @WomenWriters like movies playing scene by scene, sometimes just a line or two, or a location, a name or a feeling in my gut #amwriting […]
Writing Tips: 10 Mistakes to avoid
Joanne Harris, @Joannechocolat, is one of our favorite authors on twitter. If you do not follow her yet, you should! We collected ten of her writing tips from last week: Today’s #TenTweets continue my series of tips for writers. Today, it’s Ten Mistakes To Avoid. And yes, I’ve made them all at one time… — […]
Creative Writing Groups for Children
Jilly Henderson Long set up a creative writing group for children, and shares her experiences with us! How lucky was I back in the spring of 2012 to get the chance to start a creative writing group for local 6 – 11 year olds? As someone who had also started young – and with several […]
My Five Favorite Pieces of Writing Advice
Since graduating college, I’ve been a magazine journalist. The first half of my career I spent on staff as an editor at various women’s magazines, the second half as a freelance writer. I have loads of advice to share for the newly graduated who have the same dream I did — to see your name […]
The Three Golden Rules of Novel Writing
Andrea Gillies is the author of three books: the novel The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay (2014), the novel TheWhite Lie (2012), and the non-fiction book Keeper, which won the Wellcome Book Prize 2009 and the Orwell Book Prize 2010. We asked her for some novel writing advice. Knowing the terror of the blank white page, […]
Creating Characters with Invisible Disabilities
They’re all around us—people with invisible disabilities. Maybe you’re one of them; maybe your doctor or your best friend or your mother struggles with clinical depression. Maybe your son, like mine, battles obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Real people live, work, and love through mental illness. So why, when we talk about characters with invisible disabilities, do […]
Finding your Muse
It wasn’t so much a case of finding my muse, but of him finding me…and the fact that he was male and not at all like everyone else’s amenable female literary helpmeet ought to have given me a clue that I’d been sold a pup. However, in self-defence I have to say that I was […]
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