Writing Outside the Box

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,...

Third person is another more common perspective, alongside first person. This means using the pronouns 'he', 'she', 'they', etc. So why...

One really important consideration for your piece of writing is how and when to introduce your main character. When? I think it's fair to...

In this post, I am going to be focusing on how to give your character a background. This week's reading does this particularly well, and...

This week we are looking at characterisation. This means how to create believable characters, how much you should know about your...

This is the last post specifically on dialogue for a while, but next week we'll be focusing on character. Characterisation and dialogue...

Now we've talked about why dialogue is important, it's time to think about writing some. So what are my top tips for writing dialogue? 1....