Get a routine, get motivated! By Emma Smith-Barton
You dream of becoming a professional writer, but in an industry where hard work goes hand in hand with rejection and there’s little, if any,…
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Maintain the tension: Huffing and puffing your way through a saggy middle! by Lindsay Galvin
Today’s post was inspired by a workshop I’ve run in schools that links traditional tale plotting to story writing. A common problem in books is…
Inciting Incidents and the ‘New World Order’ — Conflict’s Big Moment by Julie Marney Leigh
From The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas At the end of Chapter One, Starr and Khalil are driving along the road when they are…
6 WAYS TO MAKE YOUR WRITING PAY? by Simon James Green
When I was writing my first novel, Noah Can’t Even, and spending time and money trying to get it ready to submit to agents, I…
In an age of tl;dr, how to hook your reader … by Emma Read
Concerning Hooks The beginning to arguably one of the best books ever written is a twenty-page prologue ‘Concerning Hobbits’.It goes on to provide some fascinating…