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Category Archives: For authors and writers
Talking cover design
It might be a cliché, but buyers do judge books by their covers. For self-publishing authors, cover design is an important part of the process and something you need to seriously consider.
Novelists learning from playwrights: pacing
In a play, the writer has to be aware of the audience’s attention span. Putting people in comfy seats, turning the lights down low after giving them drinks, it’s not long before eyelids start feeling heavy!
Novelists learning from playwrights: scenes
Just because we can take our readers anywhere, should we?
Novelists learning from playwrights: voice
Both writers of novels and plays have to create characters! It’s the way we, as readers or audience members, connect with a story. After all, what would a play or a book be without characters to follow! We need to empathise, we need to sympathise, we need to hate and love them. Creating compelling characters is the challenge.
Words, vocabulary, language and terminology
Should you be sending your readers to the dictionary for every sentence you write?
Am I doing this right?
Whether you are a writer or an editorial professional, chances are you’ve felt the effects of imposter syndrome.
The human touch
Anyone who has spent time around a word processor will know that computers are good at picking up on a few, obvious spelling errors. But can a computer replace a human editor?
Why does it matter?
What’s it all for? Why does editing or proofreading matter? Isn’t it just an unnecessary expense? My Auntie Bertha used to be an English teacher …
Whatever the weather
The weather: cliché or clever? Here’s some hints about deciding what to do with meteorological conditions in your fiction writing.
