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The Secret to Filling Out A Scene

Sorry, just don’t have the time to come up with one of those clever headlines about “65 ways to clean cat whiskers that will leave…

The Little Known Key To a High Word Count

A lot of inspiring authors start NaNoWriMo every year, hopeful that this will be the year they finally win NaNo. They try the first day,…

Unexpected Ways to Get Ideas for Novels

One of the questions best selling novelists get the most from readers and potential authors alike is “Where do you get your ideas?” It often…

The Inner Secrets of My Novels

Continuing my chatty talk about my novels and their inspirations. Sometimes when you write a novel, you plan it – and three sentences into the…

When You Don’t Have Enough Words

Last of my introspection days, then we’ll be back to “12 easy hacks for unpeeling an orange”. Sometimes editing requires ADDING words. I have two…

The Number One Reason Your Manuscript Will be Rejected

It’s truly sad. I’m always pained by stories of writers who sent their novels out too soon. Recently, I read about a writer who sent…

7 Mind Shattering Reasons My Easygoing Blogging Manner gets Zero Hits

If you study blogging, which I did once upon a time, I hit upon a lot of people who tell you exactly how to blog…

The Hardest Lesson to Learn As a Writer

After I’d written novel five (and abandoned number 4, because it had derailed), I was sent a video from a producer I was working with…

Why Learning Story Structure Benefits you

Good news – this isn’t an April Fools day joke, because you’re about sick of them. What one thing do you need to learn to…

Thoughts on “the Island”

Okay, I wrote “The Island” in one night. I literally wrote out a basic logline during a break in the day, wrote out a list…