The Blogging from A-Z Challenge continues today. Throughout April I’m posting about my life as a writer, including my inspirations, frustrations and celebrations. For the letter D, I’m going to discuss how I develop my characters. Discovery The first thing I do when developing characters is try to get to know them better through some […]
The infographic below, from GrammarCheck, contains some useful tips for writing and planning a novel. Source: www.grammarcheck.net
Welcome to the fourth part of a series of posts all about my wedding, with ideas, tips, inspiration and downloadable resources. Today I’d like to show you some of my decorations. As we both love the colour blue, we decided to go for what I call peacock colours-teal, purple and gold. We also had a lot […]
Welcome to the third part of a series of posts focusing on my wedding, with ideas, tips, inspiration and downloadable resources. Today I’ll talk through my seating plan. The seating plan was quite tricky to get right, because when three different families come together it’s hard to make sure everyone is seated next to people they […]
Here are some useful links to sites and articles that offer some general writing advice and tips: Last updated: 27/01/2013 Blogs by and for WritersWriting the Perfect SceneAdvice for Writers by David RobbinsNovel Writing TipsAdvice from Jeffrey CarverFantasy Writing PodcastsHow to Write Faster, Better and EasierHow to be CreativeHow to Write DialogueNovel Writing Tips Notes from […]
Here are some links to novel writing software programs that you may find useful. I’ve tried to collect a lot of free ones too! I personally use NewNovelist, which is pretty good. When it is released for windows in early 2010 I will be buying Scrivener, because the virtual corkboard looks incredible, and hopefully if […]
Here are some articles, prompts and databases I have found or created for helping you to build a realistic setting for your novel. Tizzy’s Ultimate Setting Chart (my own) Novel Settings Randomizer Index of Country and City Names World Building Prompts Article on World Building
Here are some great plot planning worksheets, blog posts and articles to help you structure your novel: The Nine Grid Plan 10 Ways to Organise Your Book 5 Classic Plots Plot Twists Plot Worksheet Outline Your Novel in 30 Minutes Top Ten Plotting Mistakes Plotting by Jeff Heisler Plotting by Personality Various Plotting Tools and […]