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Google Image Search There’s a lot to consider when writing an underwater adventure.  It gets even more difficult if you’re writing in a fantasy world… 7 Tips to Writing Underwater Fantasy Adventures When writing underwater scenes it’s important to include factual information, but it is equally important to know when you can utilise personification, to…

Read 5 tips to constantly improve your writing. 5 Tips to Constantly Improve Your Writing Constantly improving your writing is the goal of most authors, with each new piece of writing aimed at being just that little bit better than the last. If you feel like your writing could be better it probably means that…

The other day a friend was telling me how his dad, who was a professor in the business school at the University of Washington, wrote books. He’d shut… When I Write Writing using life experiences as the impetus to improve the real world aspects or the tiny slices of a character’s life outside of the…

Every fiction author will (eventually) find their own method for writing but all fall somewhere on the spectrum between outlining/plotting and … Writing Tips: Outlining/Plotting Vs Discovery Writing/Pantsing – by Joanna Penn… A combination of plotting and discovery writing is typically how I write, it usually helps me to plot a character’s back story, that…

Anyone following my blog for long knows I’m adept at doing all sorts of writing that isn’t my book. Occasionally I focus and work on “the wolf book” … On Writing The life of a writer is a perilous journey with many ups and downs but trying to measure whether the effort was worth it…

Hi SEers! Denise here to talk about the weather and writing. Do you have a season where you are more productive writing? When fall and winter hit, I … WRITING AND THE WEATHER Since the weather can be used as a way to reflect a character’s emotions I sometimes find it easier to write about…

Photo by Dương Nhân Memoirs! I still write fiction, essays, and screenplays. But I take particular pleasure in composing the My Real Memoir posts I … Tips for Writing: Become a Brain Archaeologist Using your own old memories in your fiction can solidify parts of your story since you already have a solid perspective on…

Renard talks about the never-ending writing that is involved in blogging. The Writing Never Stops You can’t expect momentum towards writing to suddenly just stop halfway. When writing it’s important to know when and where your stopping point is going to be. The reader’s expectations need to be managed alongside your own, so that when…

You know how you try clothes on before deciding what to wear on a date? Do you iron those clothes before holding them in the mirror? I hope not, … How Drafting Longhand Can Enhance Your Writing One benefit of drafting longhand I find useful is where you know about some key points in your…

My boss is a socialite, meaning, one of those people to whom networking comes easy. She reads self-help books and knows I write because unlike my mom… Advice for Writing Life experience and plenty of hard work goes into every page of a book, sometimes it’s the author’s contributions and other times it can be…