I love just sitting down and writing whatever comes to mind. It allows you to be more creative than when you're working to an outline as you're...
Sentence length has a lot to do with pacing. Short, punchy sentences can help to speed a scene up, with longer, more detailed sentences tend to...
It's not a case of ignoring it, or hoping it sorts itself out, it's recognising that it isn't going to be perfect first time, and that it will...
It's really not to benefit the story, it's to help me more than anything to work out how long it would take to get from A-B etc. Also, I'm quite...
Mapping Software I'm sure someone will have asked this already, but I've had a little search and haven't found what I'm looking for. I'm...
I definitely agree with Ordinary Joe's comments about just going ahead and writing the whole thing. Personally I don't go in for prlogues...
I think I agree with all of the above comments. Something not mentioned is keeping the focus on your main characters. You don't really want to...
The key to making a reader want to carry on reading is to leave them with something to think about, leave some questions unanswered, or if the...
I think this is something that, if done well, could work really well as part of the character arc. If the name being used is indicative of who he...
I have a character that was a large support character in my first novel, who has now gone on to become the main character across three more...
If you think of "too" as meaning also, this becomes a lot easier. I gave some flowers to Jane, and to Billy too.
Alas, if only that were true. 90% of the time, when a Brit turns up in an American film it usually indicates that they're the evil baddy of doom. :(
Stephen King I know he projectile vomits words all over the shop, and his uncut editions are pretty self-indulgent, but I love his characters....
This is a great idea, I think I'll be trying this myself later. I have a MC that is lacking body and this little exercise might just help me to...
Separate names with a comma.