A thing I tend to do is I have a one page synopsis of the character up to the point where the novel starts, so they can change as fits the story....
It is quite hard to imagine how different character would speak and to make them differ from each other in the way they speak and what words they...
What compells you to write? Stories in my head - my characters that sometimes almost feel scarily real! Why do you write? Because the real...
I agree with the others - research, research, research. But apart from the technical part, imagine the sounds of a race, the smells of rubber, the...
Reading Callanish by William Horwood. So far it's about and eagle taken from its nest in Scotland that has been brought to London Zoo. It's...
I have not read A Thousand Splendid Suns, but I have read The Kite Runner and it didn't really grab me. It surprised me, because everyone I knew...
I am very 'bitty' when I am writing, so I always end up having to write 'filler', so I have the opposite problem. I think if a 'scene', write it...
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