by Thor Odinson | advice for writers, become a writer, confident writing, how to write books, Mentoring for Writers, write a book |
Forge Your First Story: A Friendly Workshop for First-Time Fiction Writers Online event – Order your tickets here Jan 22 from 7pm to 8:30pm GMT A cosy, beginner-friendly workshop to spark your first story idea and get you writing. No pressure, just gentle...
by Deanne Adams | advice for writers, improving your writing skills, story writing |
Writing only one piece of fiction keeps you from growing. And while you’re not growing, there are people who are publishing books that are worse than yours. They’re writing blogs online. Sharing their flawed stories. Making money. They’re getting...
by Deanne Adams | advice for writers, Book Forge, Mentoring for Writers |
Stuck in the middle of your story? You’ve nailed the first act of your novel and you have a clear vision of how it will end, but the middle part is giving you trouble? Maybe your outline for the middle is vague and just says something like, “Things...
by Deanne Adams | advice for writers, improving your writing skills, Mentoring for Writers |
You can’t just abandon your idea, can you? Do you find yourself wishing that you’d started writing a different story when you’re too invested in the first idea to quit? You know how it goes. You have this brilliant idea for a story that you’re...
by Deanne Adams | advice for writers, confident writing, improving your writing skills |
How to break free from the habits that hold you back as a writer Self sabotage. It’s the worst enemy of any creative person, especially a fiction writer. You have a deadline, a project, a goal, but you can’t bring yourself to work on it. You find excuses,...
by Deanne Adams | advice for writers, Mentoring for Writers, story writing |
I heard something sad today. Someone was looking for some moral support because their family weren’t even slightly interested in the novel they were writing. When this person tried to talk about their creative endeavours, their relatives either point-blank...
