What is Plot … and is it the Same Thing as Story or Narrative?
What is Plot … and is it the Same Thing as Story or Narrative? For the next four weeks, we’re going to be look at “Developing Better Plots”. We’ll be covering what plot is (and isn’t), how to create a better plot, how to fix a plot that’s gone wrong, and more....
Stuck on Your Novel? Here’s How to Get Moving Again
Stuck on Your Novel? Here’s How to Get Moving Again It’s a familiar situation for most novelists: you get a few chapters in (or if you’re unlucky, a few pages) … and for one reason or another, you find yourself stuck. Maybe your initial enthusiasm for the project...
What’s a Character Arc, Who Needs One, and Why?
What’s a Character Arc, Who Needs One, and Why? You’ve probably come across the idea of a “character arc” before now … but what is it, and why’s it called that? A character arc isn’t the same thing as your plot. It’s the progression of your character as a person...
Seven Common Problems Writers Have With Characters
Seven Common Problems Writers Have With Characters Most writers love creating characters and writing about them – but it can be a struggle to get characters right. If you’re normally quite plot-focused, you might find yourself creating characters who are lifeless...
Making Bad Things Happen to Good Characters
Making Bad Things Happen to Good Characters This post was first published in August 2015, and updated in April 2019. Kudos to LycoRogue for inspiring it. Do you have a hard time hurting your characters? Maybe it’s pretty easy with some of them. (For me, villains are...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.
You can buy or sample all of them on your local Amazon, and all three are currently FREE if you're a Kindle Unlimited subscriber:
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