Are you participating in NaNoWriMo this year? If you’re unaware, NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. Every November, hundreds of thousands of authors write a complete novel — in a month. So, let’s look at some novel writing tips to help you to write 50,000 words in one month. (Here’s the ...
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New Regency Romance Novel: His One True Passion
I’ve just published His One True Passion, my new Regency romance. If you love a man who loves a woman, and is prepared to do anything it takes to win her, you’ll love Major Lord Cambwell. Here’s an excerpt… Excerpt: Regency romance is romantic… His warmth surrounded her. She felt as if she were ...
Writing Fiction: 5 Tips For Creating Great Character Names
Here’s one of the biggest challenges in writing fiction: character names. If you’re one of the many writers who can’t work on your novel’s plot or on character development until you get your main characters’ names “right”, you’ve got grounds for endless procrastination. Finding character names is ...
Editing Your Novel: Simple Scrivener Collections’ Tricks
I love editing, because editing your novel is your big opportunity to improve it. You’ve created your novel, and now it’s time to turn that enormous mass of text into the novel you really wanted to write. If you’ve completed your first novel, and editing seems intimidating, start with the big ...
Edit Your Novel: 5 Big-Picture Revision Tips
Is it time to edit your novel? Novelists seem to be divided into two groups: you either love revision, or you hate it. One of my writer friends hates revision so much that she finished the drafts of four novels, before starting on editing the first one. In some ways, this is a good idea: she’s more ...
Writing Fiction: 3 Tips To Make It Believable
You’re writing fiction. You want to make it believable, so that readers are completely engrossed in your story. How do you do that? It’s a challenge, and it can be a dangerous one. Fictional reality, and “real” reality are different. A few weeks ago, one of my writer friends complained to me ...
