Tips for Christian writers

Setting Out Your Manuscript

Some suggestions on setting out your manuscript, if you are submitting to a publisher or for a competition (or for your readers to read!).

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Dialogue is an essential part of every story, and readers need to know who is speaking! Of course we have dialogue tags to help us (e.g. he said; she replied), but there are other ways to help readers differentiate between our characters…

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Should You Ask Your Family to Look at Your Manuscript?

Should you ask your family to look at your manuscript for you? Check out this video…

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Refresh and Renew

Sometimes we get stale. This year we have lacked variety in our lives, haven’t we? Most of us have been at home pretty much constantly, with the same people, doing all the same things..

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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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