World building is a chore and a joy – all those intricate pieces to address, to fit into place and set going, and yet so much satisfaction when they all work together, giving your character somewhere amazing to explore. We’ve talked before about effective world building techniques, but there’s one area of this essential task
I think most creative people have trouble throwing things away. Not in a hoarder-esque, ‘I’m currently typing this while walled-in by newspaper towers’ kind of way. No, it’s more ‘waste not, want not’ practicality than kleptomaniac-tinted nostalgia. It’s that lingering feeling: ‘Surely this will be useful, later.’ This same feeling can apply to your writing ideas,
There are as many types of antagonist as there are protagonist – a villain for every hero (maybe more than one). We’ve talked before about how to write sympathetic antagonists, how to write villains that your reader trusts, and even how to write a story with no antagonist at all, but what about when you
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
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