Developing your craft

She felt the impetus to get started on her first novel when she had two small children and was pregnant with her third. She was also...

This month we’ll focus on rule number two, which many of you have already hinted at: establish the writing group’s goals.

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Pace is one of the trickiest things to get right, and one of the most important things to plan. At school, children are taught that a story should...

I used to write hard-hitting teenage books about modern problems: teenage pregnancy, the dangers of going off to meet internet friends, how to...

The goal is to generate as much material as possible – first draft writing – and the emphasis is on the act of generation, rather...

This is the second of my blogs, offering some thoughts about how drama can be used to improve your fiction.

Actors impersonate. And in...