Should you ask friends and family to review your newly finished manuscript for you? Writers are often advised against it, because those who are close to us are likely to …
You may have a brilliantly written, exciting novel, but if the beginning is a bit dull, you risk losing your readers before they get to the good bit. This is …
Writing for pure enjoyment is a wonderful thing! God has given us all gifts, and if you enjoy writing for fun, that’s great! If, however, you want to write a …
Children love animals! Well, most of them do, anyway, and if you have an animal in your story, that can help to engage your readers. If your animals can help …
The answer is, as few as possible! If you can keep the number of characters in your story down to the bare minimum, it will make your writing less complicated, …
If we want to draw readers into our story, we need a great beginning. If we can make our readers’ mouths drop open with a great opening paragraph, and if they love the first chapter, we have a good chance that we will keep them for the rest of the book . . .
Five things we need to know about our characters before starting to write: Whoever we are writing for, we need to have characters that our readers identify with. The better …
