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…
Writers Block: Does it exist?
Writers Block: Does it exist?? Hi everyone, does the picture on the left remind you of some of your days? Days when you just sit at an empty screen? Well, this has been ME for the last few months. I sit down, the story is outlined, the brain knows whats going to happen in the…
STAY MOTIVATED: when writing your first book
In the UK we’ve had a wonderful summer which, unfortunately for me, has tempted me out in my garden. Nothing wrong with that you may say? I’ve weeded, planted, hoed and cut the lawns, but I’ve hardly done any writing, I couldn’t stay motivated with the sun shining!! Now that the equally stunning autumn has…