Writing Outside the Box

Here are my top tips for writing good novels: 1. Do all the background work and the rest will follow. You have to prepare in order to...

The novel is the longest type of story we will be looking at, and they are typically around 80,000-120,000 words. Of course, this is...

The final type of story we will be discussing this month is the novel. This is the longest type we will be looking at, and it is...

Here are my top tips for writing a good novella: 1. You will need to think more about genre. Although they aren't as long as novels,...

As I said in my first post, a novella is typically a stand-alone book of up to around 40,000 words. A novella is able to be published in...

This week we're going to be looking at the novella. A novella is longer than a short story, but shorter than a novel. Again, there is...

Here are my top tips for writing good short stories: 1. Try developing a flash fiction into a short story. This is something I have...

Similarly to flash fiction, there is no exact definition of a short story. Short stories tend to be a few pages which can generally be...

Here are my top tips for writing good flash fiction: 1. Read lots of other flash fiction. I really can't recommend this enough - and...

A flash fiction is a very short story, usually only consisting of a few hundred words, although there is no real boundary. If you are...

This month, our focus is going to be types of story. We'll start by looking at flash fiction - don't forget to read this week's story...