Author: Janet

In the Write for a Reason course we are looking at dialogue this week, so I thought I’d share a bit of it with you!

Develop a different voice for each of your characters.

When writing dialogue, give each of your characters their own . . .

This week in the Write for a Reason course we are looking at “showing” instead of “telling” and I thought I’d share a bit with you! Those of you who have been with us for a while may have seen this before, but there’s never any harm going over the basics. Hope you find it useful. 🙂

How do you spot “tells” in your . . .

This tip isn’t just for writers of Christian fiction, so do share with your writer friends!

Most stories benefit from a twist at the end of the tale. We all like a surprise ending! Perhaps the girl decides to marry the best man, the auntie is really the child’s mother, the baddie wasn’t . . .

Last week we took a look at writing your final page before you’d written the beginning (or at least, got very far into your novel).

But what if you find yourself going over and over the ending and getting frustrated, because you can’t seem . . .

Do you:

start writing at the beginning of your novel?
write the ending first?

I know it sounds crazy, but there is some merit in having the final page all sown up before you’ve written the bulk of your novel . . .