Choose a writing routine that suits your own writing habits. Some writers are binge writers, and like to write in long, focused sessions. Others write a little bit every day. You can plan regular writing sessions. Short “writing sprints,” where you set a timer for a certain length of ...
Bestselling and award-winning author Simone St. James shares five tips for writing scary stories and horror novels that readers will love to fear.
To make your magnum opus successful, you need to build those storytelling skills. While the learning curve for novel writing is more like a cliff than a slope, Mythcreants is here to help. Believe it or not, I can tell which editing clients have read our instructional articles. I can’t ...
Short stories are tricky beasts, and when I first attempted them, I couldn’t figure out what was going wrong. To save you time (and hopefully some angst), here are my tips for writing short fiction – the ones I wish I’d known from the beginning! 1. Begin with action This d...
After writing two food-forward contemporary romance novels (Ruby Spencer’s Whisky Year and Effie Olsen’s Summer Special) and one romantic memoir punctuated with recipes (The Call of the Farm), I’ve picked up some tricks for mixing up the ideal, uh, ingredients. These are my...
‘made up’, that is, invented or untrue. It is therefore a form ofcreative writing. Fiction is generally about invented characters, places, events and situations, although it can be rooted in historical or contemporary fact. The majority of fiction is published as novels, although the genre ...
Different formats of stories have different structures. For example, many plays, films, and novels follow a three-act structure that suggests placing specific plot points, or “story beats,” at specific points in the story. If you’re writing a short story, on the other hand, you have muc...
When writing a book, a scene is a useful structuring and guiding unit to focus on. We already discussed how you canuse the Scene Builder on Now Novel to organize scenes. In our webinar 'Hooking the Reader: Crafting a page-turning opening chapter', Romy shared the following tips for starti...
Again, look at mybook genreswebsite as a starting point. Then, if you want or need more information after that, Google about your genre. For example: “Tips for writing mystery novels,”“Tips for writing picture books,” etc. 3. Target the right agents ...
The books cover academic materials while others are novels. You may also love a book from your childhood years. The kind of book you choose will determine your overall essay writing experience. It is advisable to choose a book you fully understand. It helps you to capture the technical ...