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 …
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 »