Tips for Christian writers – Write for a Reason

Essential Creative Writing Tip for the Start of Your Story

I’m interrupting our series of writing tips on defeating enemies, with a quick tip sent in by writer-for-a-reason Jan Godfrey (you can find her beautiful books for children in Christian bookshops)…

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Writing Enemies – Distractions and How to Beat Them

I hope you find this week’s writing tip useful – the third in our series on defeating Writing Enemies. If you missed how to beat self-doubt and imposter syndrome, click on the links to catch up. 🙂 …

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Defeat Your Enemies: The Self-Doubt Giant

Good morning! Today we’re going to continue with our “Defeating Our Enemies” series, with a quick but hopefully helpful look at self-doubt…

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Vanishing Perspective

There are rules to writing fiction that do not change. Just as there are rules for drawing. I’ve been learning to draw recently – this is me practising the one-point perspective…

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Descriptions: Taking it All In

I am fortunate to be able to walk out of our house into country lanes. With the roads being quiet, it allows for reflection. Yesterday, as I was passing through an area of woodland, I did this exercise, and I recommend it to you…

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One Quick Way to Annoy Your Readers

I recently read a children’s novel which was written in the first person, and it wasn’t until several pages in that I realised the character was a boy, not a girl. The author is female, so I unwittingly assumed the character …

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3 Writing Exercises for You

With so much of the world talking about Covid-19, I can’t ignore it and sit here and talk about writing stories as if nothing was happening…

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Bad news…

Good morning! I’m currently writing with my son and his wife in self-isolation after returning home from China. These are strange times, aren’t they….

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Your Story’s One Main Aim

Why doesn’t Cinderella, as well as wanting to go to the ball, also need to save a rare flower, search for a long-lost auntie and lose weight?…

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Beating Imposter Syndrome

Here are some of the signs you are suffering from Imposter Syndrome: you feel you’re not good enough, can’t do it, don’t belong there, shouldn’t be there… you feel a fraud, and that people will judge you. In your head you hear people saying, Who is he to be doing that? Who does she

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