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Arts and Science: Yin and Yang

Arts and science are seen as opposites - one side is emotional and subjective, the other cool and rational. There's some truth in that,...

Making a Scene: Summary versus In-Scene Writing

Should you stay in the moment, or should you pull back to a summary of generalities? A good scene stays close to a viewpoint character...

Driving your story

“Make your characters want something right away, even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of...

First things first

If you want a particular closeness to a character and their experiences, first-person viewpoint can help. And the first thing to do in...

Creating a killer opening

We know that the first line, paragraph or scene of a book is so important, but how can writers hook their readers and have them turning...

Virtual Write Club November–December 2022

We've already started! Last Wednesday we tried something a bit different – a few live writing exercises to fix specific issues in my...

Virtual Write Club September—October 2022

What can I say? Life's been a bit hectic, what with beating myself up on a canyoning adventure on holiday, and talking myself to death at...

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