How to win a Picture Book Award You can find out more about WriteMentor’s Novel Awards here: https://write-mentor.com/awards/write… Clare is a former primary school teacher turned writing tutor and children’s …
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How to Win a Novel Award Authors and multi-competition winners Emily Randall-Jones and Melissa Welliver share their advice on how to make your novel entry stand out amongst the crowd …
Many of us are submitting our work to agents in the hope of getting representation to move forward with the dream of getting something published. It’s the first big step …
WriteMentor shares advice for preparing for an agent 1-2-1, as well as expectations and handling feedback.
WriteMentor shares advice in coffee break reads series for making editing easier to polish your prose and make your manuscript shine
Sally Doherty, author of Toby and the Silver Blood Witches, shares her advice, experiences, and process of self-publishing a children’s novel
WriteMentor coffee break reads details how writers should receive feedback on their writing
Read WriteMentor’s coffee break reads blog post of how to structure your story.
Read WriteMentor’s coffee break reads for writing Young Adult fiction
Read WriteMentor’s top 5 tips for writing a successful synopsis
Read WriteMentor’s top 5 tips for creating believable book characters
With applications opening soon for WM 2021, I thought I’d post up a few thoughts of mine, which I’ve learned both from writing myself but also, more importantly, from reading …
Some help to write synopses, query letters and openings Read More »
Part of a series about writing and publishing from the point of view of an author with Generalised Anxiety Disorder. I haven’t written a blog post about anxiety for a …
The Anxious Author Part 3 – Permission to Struggle with Submission by Lindsay Galvin Read More »
Staying creative when you don’t feel like it I’m writing this blog today, one week into the new school term and as usual in September I’m suffering that general malaise …
When Your Diary Says ‘writing’ but Your Brain Says ‘Netflix’ by Emma Read Read More »
EDITING: How do you know when a story is finished? I knew I wanted my final Write Mentorpost of 2019 to be about editing, unpicking the question; How do you …
EDITING: How do you know when a story is finished? by Clare Helen Welsh Read More »
Congratulations! You’re Published … When I was pregnant with my first child (bear with, this will be about writing eventually, I promise) I attended a series of pre-natal classes with …
CONGRATULATIONS! You’re published…now what? by Emma Read Read More »
Following my last #WriteMentor post about finding original and marketable ideas, (If you missed the post, you can read it here) I thought it might be useful to take a …
PICTURE BOOKS: Plot Like a Pro by Clare Helen Welsh Read More »
What is Flash Fiction? Might as well ask how long that proverbial piece of string is. Definitions of what makes flash fiction vary, taking in word count, number of characters, …
Short and Sweet (or, How Flash Fiction Can Help You Write Your Novel) by Emma Read Read More »
This is the follow up post – the second in a #writementor series exploring mental health, particularly anxiety, in the context a writing career or creative life. In the first …
The Anxious Author Part 2 – The First Draft by Lindsay Galvin Read More »
PICTURE BOOKS: How to distinguish the good ideas from the not so good If you dream of having your picture book published, a standout idea is key. Writing is a …
Apologies this doesn’t have quite the lighthearted tone of my other posts. It’s also too long. But I’m not anxious about that. This is important to share. I am an …
It is widely considered that almost everyone, at some point in their life, will want to write a book. For me that happened in 2013. With no experience, no obvious …
Are you ready to be a writer? by Clare Helen Welsh Read More »