Storytelling I’ve revamped this blog post after being told by a number of people that they are ‘too old to write their first book’! It set me thinking again about this subject. Is there ever a time when we are too old to write? I don’t think so. In fact, storytelling and writing well into…
Writing Tips: 10 Skills You need to Become an Author
Writing tips for the beginner: the 10 skills needed to become a writer. Think you have at least one book inside you? If you think it will make a good read and entertain, it’s time you took steps to let it out. Writing a book and getting it published is not a simple undertaking. Click…
Dialogue: 7 Mistakes New Writers Make
Dialogue is an essential part of fiction, and whether you love writing dialogue or dread it, you’ll probably agree how important it is to any story – but it needs to be done well to move the story along and stay interesting for your reader. Dialogue has many roles. It can: Reveal character Advance the…
Scenes In Book Writing: what is a scene.
WHAT IS A SCENE? A scene is described as a self-contained mini-story. Any story or novel is a series of scenes with narrative summary between. These individual scenes are built with a structure described as having a beginning, middle and end. BEGINNING or LAUNCHING SCENES The word beginning is misleading, as some scenes can pick up in the…
Pinterest Marketing: a beginners guide to book marketing
PINTEREST FOR BOOK & BLOG MARKETING To write a book, edit it and finally publish it, is a wonderful experience. All that hard work, stress and self doubt is over and it’s time to relax . . . Oi! Wait a minute, how can you get traffic to blog site and how do people know…