Using Transition words
Using transition words in your text can help you enhance the readability. Used well, these words help your text flow. […]
Writing
Posts on the craft of writing
Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing
From a master of crime fiction, Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing carry a lot of weight. Leonard began his
Final-Third Frenzy
The notion of final-third frenzy comes from a Reedsy webinar The Top Suspense Novel Pitfalls. Taking the broad category of
Seven Deadly Fears of Writing
What’s been stopping you from producing that magnum opus? From the opening of Jurgen Wolff’s 2007 Your Writing Coach, what
Outlining a novel
Outlining a novel? Why not? Sixty, seventy, eighty thousand words or more. That’s your typical novel. Somehow you have to
Planning a Series
I set out to write one book and found myself planning a series. I’m defining a series as a number
Five publishing design clichés
BBC Arts’ Tom Churchill mocked up five publishing design clichés that pervade the book stands. From the airport blockbuster thriller,
No Story without Conflict
It is a truth universally acknowledged, there is no story without conflict. Unlike the opening of Pride and Prejudice, this
Writing
Tips from a Screenwriter
Listen to tips from a screenwriter for TV and movies Jeremy Brock. The co-creator of BBC’s Casualty, writer of Last
Unreal Reality in Fiction
Ever considered the unreal reality in fiction? Fiction isn’t reality. Contemporary stories and fantasy stories exist in different planes of