What if You’re Just Not Good Enough To Be a Successful Writer?
What if You’re Just Not Good Enough To Be a Successful Writer? This post was originally published in June 2016 and updated in June 2020. What if you’re not good enough? What if you enjoy writing … but you’re actually pretty rubbish at it? What if any...
15 Ways to Make Your Characters Suffer (for the Good of Your Novel)
15 Ways to Make Your Characters Suffer (for the Good of Your Novel) Note: This post was originally published in 2016, and was updated in June 2018. Do your characters suffer enough? Even if you’re writing a light and fluffy romance, at some point, someone in your...
Five Straightforward Ways to Create Stronger Characters
Five Straightforward Ways to Create Stronger Characters If your story doesn’t have strong, compelling characters … no-one’s going to want to read it. That might sound harsh. But however intricate your plotting or however exotic your setting, if your characters...
Why Repetition Can Be Powerful … and How to Get it Right
Why Repetition Can Be Powerful … and How to Get it Right Is it ever okay to repeat the same word or phrase in your writing? Unintentional repetition is something that authors are (quite rightly) warned to watch out for, particularly in fiction. Intentional...![Ten Book-Level Mistakes to Watch Out for When Redrafting Your Fiction [With Examples]](https://www.aliventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/book-level-mistakes.jpg)
Ten Book-Level Mistakes to Watch Out for When Redrafting Your Fiction [With Examples]
Ten Book-Level Mistakes to Watch Out for When Redrafting Your Fiction [With Examples] A few weeks ago, I posted about sentence-level mistakes: ones that are easy to spot from a page or a paragraph of writing. Even if you write flawless prose, though, it’s possible to...About
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The Lycopolis Trilogy
My trilogy of contemporary fantasy novels, Lycopolis, Oblivion and Dominion, are all available from Amazon.
The books follow on from one another, so I highly recommend reading Lycopolis before the other two.
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