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Hitting rock bottom. The whiff of death. The point of no return. Whatever term you prefer to describe it, you’ll certainly have come across countless ‘All Is Lost’ moments in fiction. It’s the moment when Frodo loses his nerve to throw the One Ring into the fires of Mount Doom. The moment when Charlie Bucket is told by an enraged Willy Wonka that he “gets nothing”. The moment when Snape Avada …
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If you’ve ever read an authors’ ‘How To’ book, attended a creative writing class or pretty much sought writing advice of any kind ever, you’re bound to have run into this phrase: ‘always start with the action’. It’s probably as ubiquitous as ‘show don’t tell’ and ‘do not, under any circumstances, use Comic Sans. EVER’. But should you always start with the action? And if so, what does that really …
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Should you care about what your fans want? Yes and no. As with so many other questions in life, the answer is somewhere in the middle. On the one hand, it’s important that you stay true to your writing. On the other hand, you don’t want to completely ignore the wishes of your fans. But how can you take their desires into account without changing your story too much? Let’s take a deeper look at …
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The ‘how long?’ question has to be one of the most commonly asked by new authors – perhaps even experienced ones, too. It was certainly one of the first to pass my lips when I met my editor to discuss my first children’s book. “What’s the age range?” she asked me when I broached the subject. “I’m thinking of aiming for older children,” I told her. “That would be ages eight to twelve, then. In …
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In 2014, musician David Bazan made an announcement. He was going to write and release two original songs every month. One of the factors that led to this self-imposed challenge was that he’d been touring for the last three years to pay the bills and hadn’t written anything new. It was time to jump-start his creative work again, and setting an ambitious goal in a public way seemed to do the trick. …
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The biggest annual event in the world of writing is upon us once again! For those writers who are brave or foolhardy enough, National Novel Writing Month is the perfect opportunity to speed through a novel, as participants aim to write at least 50,000 words in just thirty days. If you’re one of the many heroic writers looking to tackle the great NaNoWriMo beast, you’re in good company – …
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