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…
Writer’s Block: Does it exist?
Writer’s 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 was ME for the last few months. I sat down, the story is outlined, the brain knows what’s going to happen in the plot…