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Every writer needs to find their own voice - it is this that will set your novel apart and ensure literary agents read past the synopsis. In this section, you can find a selection of articles aimed at helping you to develop your unique style.
Creative process – your toolbox for self-improvement
In a former incarnation as a Commissioning Editor at a creative production company, I came across many samples of writing by ambitious writers making their first foray into the professional realm. It was always quite outstanding how many writers jumped the gun with the same common mistakes and gaps …
Developing Your Style: Part I
Creative
Writing Lecturer Derek Neale encourages you to encounter a range of genres when
developing your style. Packed with ideas for learning from other styles of
writing, plus drama and screenplays, Derek also offers you creative exercises
and checklists which he provides for his own …
Developing Your Style: Part II
Making a scene
This is the second in Derek Neale’s four-part creative writing series, ‘Developing Your Style’.
‘Dramatize! Dramatize!’ was Henry James’ famous maxim to himself and to would-be novelists. The advice remains true today.
What James meant was that you’re …
Developing Your Style: Part III
Finding a voice
This is the third in Derek Neale’s four-part creative writing series, ‘Developing your style’. (Note: links in this article are to iTunes podcasts).
Actors impersonate. And in many ways that’s just what we do when we write a story – we put on the voices of our …
Developing Your Style: Part IV
Splicing the strands
This is the last in Derek Neale’s four-part creative writing series, ‘Developing Your Style’.
What do James Joyce’s Ulysses and Graham Swift’s novel Last Orders have in common. Not a lot, you may think. You would be wrong. The answer is time frame – the action of …