It’s been your dream to write a novel for many years. Perhaps you’ve started to write, and got stuck. Or maybe you’re waiting for the happy day when you get the perfect idea for a novel which will be an instant bestseller. Here’s a secret: every published novelist knows that there’s only one ...
Writing Tools & Techniques
Write A Novel FAST: Edit While You’re Writing
How do you write a novel? Short answer: your way. There are as many ways to write novels as there are writers. Moreover, each novel you write is a fresh challenge. Let’s look at a FAST way to write a novel. This is far from the only way, of course. :-) Tip: if you’re a pantser, and have no ...
Write Fiction: 2 Useful Tips For Writing Descriptions
You want to write fiction. Or perhaps you’ve written a novel and an editor has told you that your novel needs work. One of the easiest ways to improve your fiction is to help your readers to engage fully with your story, so that your readers to experience what your characters experience. You do that ...
How To Outline A Novel If You’re A Natural-Born Pantser
November will be here soon, and November means National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo.) Several new-novelist friends are taking part, and I’m very excited for them. The most common question I’m asked is: “how do I outline a novel?” Some authors outline carefully. They love outlining, and won’t ...
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 ...
