Hello authors, and welcome to the first article of our month-long National Novel Writing Month coverage. For those who don’t know, NaNoWriMo takes place over November and challenges authors to pen 50,000 words in thirty days. It’s caught on around the world, with a variety of resources now available for those taking part. There’s no
There’s a question that every author has to face eventually, and it’s one to which they either have the perfect answer or none at all. That question is “Sez who?”, and if you can answer it before your reader even asks, you’ll have massively improved any project, whether it’s memoir, fiction, or even your pitch
Happiness. It’s not – at face value – a likely theme for the novelist. – Robert McCrum, ‘Where is happiness in 20th-century fiction?’ from The Guardian Conflict is the fuel of fiction, the engine that keeps the story surging forward. But ‘all drama, all the time’ makes for an unrealistic reading experience and a pace
In writing, and most artistic endeavors, artists have the benefit of accessing and utilizing a wide range of tools. These tools can be complex and take a lot of work – like successfully folding your writing – while others – like quadrant theory – are more about understanding and refining what we already half-understand as
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