A Book Coach’s Perspective It’s important to understand your characters, and what makes them important to the story. By creating character timelines, your story will be more cohesive and your characters more engaging. A character timeline helps you answer questions like, Why is the main character the main character? What made the villain a villain? […]
This post is a case study with a recent client who needed help organising and structuring her writing. Let’s call this client Lesley. She had queries about whether she was going about it the right way and was seeking guidance. Lesley is writing a series of short stories on ancestral themes which she intends to
A Book Coach’s Perspective I recently had a 1-hour Zoom session with a client who’d emailed me saying, ‘My name is Chad (pseudonym) and I’m becoming a writer. With one project, I’m having an awful time trying to switch between narrative voices and in understanding which voice ought to convey what content.’ He didn’t actually
Talking to writers Recently, I presented to two groups of writers, the Gold Coast Writers’ Association (GCWA) and the Helensvale Writers’ Group, with the presentation title I’m a Good Writer I Don’t Need an Editor! Once upon a long time ago, I belonged to GCWA and served on the committee as newsletter editor and secretary.
Writing is an effective way to process trauma and emotional strain. Whether it’s for personal use or for publication, it’s a cathartic way to express your emotions. However, when writing emotionally difficult scenes in fiction that you plan to publish, it’s worth keeping in mind some guidelines. Guest blogger of Writing Emotionally Difficult Scenes in
This blog post is a book review of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series, a bestseller since 1991. The first novel has over 900,000 reviews on Goodreads. The series follows the time-travelling journey through a ring of standing stones, a fairy circle that allows time travel, of World War Two nurse Claire in 1946 and back into
Vampires, zombies and werewolves. Sounds like we’ve travelled back in time ten years, doesn’t it? Unlike Twilight, the From Blood and Ash series by Jennifer L Armentrout puts a delightful new twist on classic paranormal elements. Amelia Connell is guest blogger of From Blood and Ash. At the time of writing this post, Amelia was
Guest blogger of A Modern High Fantasy Staple is Amelia Connell. At the time of writing this post, Amelia was a University of the Sunshine Coast student completing a Bachelor of Creative Industries, majoring in Publishing & Creative Writing. Amelia undertook a 208-hour internship with Gail Tagarro. Sarah J Maas The name Sarah J Maas
Amelia Connell is guest blogger of Believable World-building in High Fantasy Fiction. At the time of writing this post, Amelia was a University of the Sunshine Coast student completing a Bachelor of Creative Industries, majoring in Publishing & Creative Writing. Amelia undertook a 208-hour internship with Gail Tagarro. High Fantasy When writing a work of
The Heart of the Story Characters are the heart of every story. No matter how experimental the prose or how speculative the subject of the story, without a character there is no story. I’m the kind of writer who sometimes wakes up with a fully formed character walking around in my head. But I have
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