Stylised Talk: Writing Great Dialogue [With Examples]
Stylised Talk: Writing Great Dialogue [With Examples] Image from Flickr by procsilas This post was first published in August 2015, and updated in February 2019. If you’re a fiction writer, unless you’re writing a very short story or something decidedly experimental,...
Unreliable Narrators: What Are They and Why Might You Want to Use One?
Unreliable Narrators: What Are They and Why Might You Want to Use One? An unreliable narrator is a first person narrator who doesn’t entirely tell the truth. That might be because they’re biased or deluded – or it could be because they’re outright lying to us (or, at...
Is Writing a Novel a “Someday” Dream for You?
Is Writing a Novel a “Someday” Dream for You? Note: This post was originally published in 2016, and was updated in January 2019. Are you thinking of writing a novel someday? Maybe you’re waiting because you don’t have an idea, yet. Maybe you’re waiting because you...