One of the biggest secrets of telling a good story is making sure that you use good characters. After all, if your protagonist and his/her companions are dull and uninteresting, then you needn’t expect much of a reaction from your readers! With every character you create, try your best to make them colourful, unique and memorable. If you can master this, then you are well on the …
One of the biggest problems with trying so hard to get everything right when penning a novel is that of forgetting a few of the guaranteed killers we’re all guilty of falling foul of from time to time. The truth is that when it comes to today’s leading publishers, there are scores of mistakes that once spotted will discourage them from considering reading any further – …
Writing a novel is an exhilarating, fun, amazingly worthwhile experience...but you need to approach it properly. Of course, that last sentence in itself is slightly ludicrous: everyone knows that there are no rules, and a novel can be written in a hundred different ways. That said, planning is never a bad thing. Here are a few key hints and tips which some of the best novelists use to make …
It’s a common misconception amongst the public that all published authors are swimming in cash, and spend their time flitting between showbiz parties and literary lunches. Perhaps they …
Alex Garland burst onto the literary scene in the 90s in a way which is hard to forget. The Beach may not have been his first novel – the now …
In the past, us writers were always at the mercy of publishers and literary agents. We only got published if they liked our work, or thought it would make them …
If you are on your first endeavor to writing a novel, you are probably facing extremely difficult to overcome complications. No matter whether your work is pure fiction or a …
