The Editing Cycle #5 – Character Dialogue
There’s a lot to be said about dialogue. Perhaps a year, or ten from now, a revolutionary author will come along and present us with a book that has no spoken word, no vernacular...
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The Editing Cycle #4 – The Domino Effect
Don’t be caught unaware by the domino effect! Editing can sometimes be a painful experience and one of the reasons for this is the domino effect. If you’re keeping up, then you...
I’ll Interrobang You!
!?!?!? You wouldn’t think people need punctuation in poetry, in fact most people seem to ignore it completely – except for the capitalisation of every line (what’s with that?! [That interrobang is for you...
Publishing Strategies: Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding models like Kickstarter and Indiegogo are becoming more and more popular for creative projects of all kinds. What’s really interesting, though, is what this is going to do – and already doing –...
The Editing Cycle #3 – Character Growth
Whether you’ve finished writing your novel, or have only just begun, one of the most important things to consider is character consistency vs character growth. Every character in your novel goes through a journey...
To Break or Not to Break?
snap, crackle, pop Writers of all ages and all places are aware of line breaks. Sometimes we’re not aware of what line breaks are doing, exactly, but we definitely know they’re there! Completing a...
The Six: Six Things You Didn’t Know About Sylvia Plath
With 2013 being the 50th anniversary of Plath’s suicide, writers around the world have gathered to fondly remember the troubled poet. Yet the dark story she has to tell is not one to take...
The Editing Cycle #2 – Rock, Paper, Scissors
Rock, Paper, Scissors As writers, sometimes we find ourselves between a rock and a hard place. Whether this rock is a lack of inspiration, or a plot arc which refuses to be resolved, we...
A Poet Cannot Just
Exist, Be God, Write Roland Barthes says that the Author is Dead in his essay of the same name. You may be horrified by the notion, but I promise you that it isn’t quite...
The Editing Cycle #1 – Sentence Structure
For our first session of The Editing Cycle, we are going to focus on fiction, more specifically, on sentence structure.
