by Ali | Jul 12, 2024 | Fiction
How to Get Your Characters Right As You Rewrite Your Novel When you’re reworking your first or second draft, you’ll likely be making some changes relating to your characters and their characterisation (how they come across on the page). If you didn’t quite nail your...
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by Ali | Jun 6, 2024 | Fiction
What Bad Writing Looks Like … and How to Fix It [With Detailed Examples] This post was first published in March 2021 and most recently updated in June 2024. A lot of writers worry that they may not be good enough to be successful. The truth is that however...
by Ali | Feb 15, 2024 | Fiction
Why Readers Might Not Make it Past Your First Few Pages: Five Reasons (and Five Fixes) Have you ever started reading a novel and given up within the first few pages? Unless you’re a particularly tenacious (or stubborn!) reader, you probably have. It’s often clear...
by Ali | Dec 7, 2023 | Editing
How Much Should You Revise Your Work Before Sending it to a Beta Reader? Are you thinking about sending your story or novel to a beta reader? It can feel really daunting to share your work with someone else to get their thoughts – but direct, specific feedback on your...
by Ali | Feb 23, 2023 | Fiction
Five Powerful Ways to Make Your Novel’s Plot More Complex Is your novel’s plot complex enough? If you’ve drafted a novel and you’re done in 50,000 words when you were aiming for 80,000, or if the pacing feels wrong – perhaps not much happens and you’ve dragged out...
