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 …