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Are People Losing Reading ‘Stamina?’

Interviewed at the Hay Literary Festival, Dame Jacqueline Wilson wonders are people losing ‘reading stamina?’ Appearing on BBC Radio 4’s […]

Attention spans are getting shorter, reading choice is getting bigger; which is why writers have to include five items on

Sooner or later in the process, every author faces editing the ‘crutch’ words. These are the habitual words or phrases

In a previous post I looked at how character arcs rise and fall and promised to look at applying character

There are plenty of beneficial writers’ tools, but a weekend of editing has taught me something: Grammarly’s good but not

Part of the editing process is considering how character arcs rise and fall in the course of the novel. Movement,

Writing across a series, rearranging the jigsaw pieces often reveals some missing; that means plugging a plot hole. Or several.

Never mind that I’m 65% through editing and still don’t know if the novel is any good: do I have

Some of the takeaways from Brandon Sanderson’s 2020 lectures include his three scales of character. Sanderson’s three scales of character

Another gem from the BYU online writers’ course features author and lecturer Brandon Sanderson on character. In this lecture, Sanderson