At our last writing group meeting, we talked about finding time to write. Several members shared their writing process. Some outlined, some didn’t. One member wrote on her phone in her car, before she started work each day. She said: “You can write more than you’d think in ten minutes a ...
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Writing Fiction: 5 Ways To Add Drama (And Please Readers)
You’re writing fiction. You’re an entertainer, so your primary task when you write is to be entertaining. It’s a constant challenge. I’ve got a yellow sticky pasted to my screen which says: DRAMA. It’s easy to forget to create drama and make your fiction entertaining because there are so many ...
NaNoWriMo And Your Novel: 5 Tips To Stay On Track
I’m not participating in NaNoWriMo this year. I need to revise a couple of my novels, and this is the busiest time of year for my marketing day job. However, NaNoWriMo’s been in progress for a week, and I’ve had questions from writers who fear they won’t finish. One writer is very much behind. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Top 5 Time Management Tips For Authors To Use Today
No time to write your book? No one has time — we all have many things we could (and maybe should) be doing rather than writing. I’ve been falling into the “no time” trap myself recently, so let’s look at great time management tips which have helped me to get back on track. Time management tips for ...
