For the first time tomorrow, I shall be joining the NaNoWriMo crowd. NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. The main NaNo event takes place in November. Participants have a goal of writing 50,000 words (a small novel) in a month. Camp NaNo events take place in April and July. …
Tomorrow, Thursday 30 June, come and play #twitterphile games with @scribotweeters. Here’s the image with the prompt. Please feel free to share this image on Twitter. To get the most out of games: – share the prompt on your profile – tweet answers to the prompt (there is no etiquette on …
When I’m doing rough writing, or first drafts, I find that writing in sprints is a helpful technique. If I keep track of sprints, it motivates me to finish my project. I don’t necessarily think that writing faster will mean you write better, but it’s certainly a good way of …
I’ve recently started up a new group of writers on Twitter, via my writing workshop site, Scribophile. We have a group Twitter account with the username @scribotweeters, and we are going to start playing weekly games which everyone can join in. The image for the first game is at the …
It is a writer’s job to draw readers into the fictional story so completely that they forget the real world. Our goal is to render them powerless, so despite the late hour, mountain of laundry, or workday ahead, they cannot give up the journey unfolding within the paper-crisp pages before …
These days, if you want to be a writer, you’re told you need to have an author platform. But what do those mysterious words mean? They mean having some kind of presence on the internet. And to be honest, if all you want to do is write books, the internet …
The Urban Setting Thesaurus – A Writer’s Guide to City Spaces (Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi) This book is the latest offering from the ladies behind the Emotion Thesaurus, one of my most-read how-to write books. The Urban Setting Thesaurus starts with a discussion of how to use setting to …