Writing

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Aug092022

Writing Tips : 1 Comparison Kills Creativity

In this weekly series of blog posts, I’m going to focus on writing tips for beginners. These are tips I use in my coaching practice and that I found the most useful for my own writing practice. There will be a weekly image (as below) posted on Instagram along with a blog post, and a live video discussing the tip on my Facebook page.

Writing Tips - 1 Comparison Kills Creativity

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Oct182021

What is The Novel Planning Journal and How Can It Help You?

If you follow me on social media, you’ll have heard about my new book, The Novel Planning Journal. Over the course of the next couple of weeks, I’ll be sharing some insights into this book as well as some information on the different sections contained within it.

The Novel Planning Journal

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Jan212020

New Year, New Writing Goals

It’s January and I’m already late with my writing goals for this year. The reason for this is that my focus shifted slightly during my Christmas holidays. I spent a lot of time asking myself what it is that I actually wanted to achieve. It’s a really great exercise to do if you find you’re unsure of the direction you are taking.

2020 writing goals

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Sep252019

Using Pictures: Character Profiles Part 2

Last week, in part 1 of this character profiles series, I mentioned that I was going to start working on character profiles for my next story. To help get me started, I paid a visit to Pixabay (not the best move as I tend to end up browsing this site for hours on end, salivating over all the fabulous images) and began my search. I typed female into the search bar because I knew I wanted my protagonist to be female. This yielded thousands of results but nothing in the first couple of pages jumped out at me. I decided to get a little more accurate so I opted to use genre instead. Most of my stories tend to have paranormal or fantasy elements so I put fantasy into the search.

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Sep172019

Character Profiles – My New Writing Experiment

I’m looking at character profiles today and starting a new writing experiment to help me determine if this is something I should be doing. The idea came about after reading some interesting character profile questions that writers should know and I kinda liked the idea of doing something like this. I’m also trying to stay focused while I decide what story to write next.

Character profiles

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Apr292019

Visions – The Cursed Angels Book 1 – Now on Dreame

This is a story that has been sitting on my desktop for quite some time and after discovering the reading app, Dreame, I decided to see what it was all about. Visions, book 1 of The Cursed Angels Duet is now available on this app and it is free to read for the moment. I have been sharing one chapter each day and there are 14 chapters on the app right now. Below is the cover and blurb for this book followed by a little bit of inside information on what Chapter 1 holds.

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Apr212019

Writing Routine: Do You Need One?

If you’ve been reading advice on writing, you’ll most likely be familiar with the term writing routine. Every writer has a routine of some kind whether it’s writing a fixed amount of words every day, devoting a certain amount of time to writing, or writing at a certain time each day. Today I thought I’d talk about why a writing routine is important and why it works for me.

Writing Routine

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Feb202019

The Page a Day Challenge: For Writers That Don’t Have Time

Whenever I’m asked about writing and tips and techniques I recommend, one of the things I always talk about is the Page A Day Challenge. This is the technique that allowed me to write all my novels and books so far and one that I personally feel turned my writing life around.

Page A Day Challenge

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Jan042019

Finding Forever Free on Kindle Until January 7

Just a very short update to let you all know that Finding Forever is currently free on Kindle. This is my romantic suspense novella that won the Summer Indie Book Award for Best Thriller in 2017. It will be free until Monday 7th of January, so if you haven’t read it, now is a great time to do so. If you have read it and think any of your friends would enjoy it, please do share this post.

Finding Forever

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Nov282018

On Finishing The First Draft

Last week, I typed those long-awaited words – The End – on my current novel, Winterland. I’ve now put it away for a couple of weeks while I remove myself from its world and get ready for edits. To add a bit of colour to this post and break things up a little, here’s a pretend cover I created.

Winterland

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