How to be creative every day (without adding anything new to your routine)
I often hear people say they lack any time to be creative. Even I sometimes reach the end of the […]
Competitive Reading
All right, I’ll admit it. I am totally guilty of setting myself a reading challenge on Goodreads. This year, I’ve
Why I’m Not Participating in Camp NaNoWriMo.
April heralds the first Camp NaNoWriMo for 2023, and I’m giving it a miss. Why? Because, personally, NaNoWriMo never works
The solitude life of a writer
For me, writing is a lonely activity. It’s paradoxical to think I spend long periods in solitude, writing about made-up
Using your editing skills to check in on your mental health and rewrite your own story
Our ego is similar to a fictional story. It is our perception of ourselves in our reality. We write out
How To Use Polarity In Fictional Writing
What is Polarity? Polarity is something with two poles with many degrees of separation between them. One pole cannot exist
How to read books for free (which aren’t detrimental to the author)
Despite the likes of Amazon, Waterstones and big supermarket chains demanding massive discounts on bestselling, frontlist titles (which might be
My Favourite Scrivener Tools
Scrivener was a game changer for my writing process. Before, I confined my stories to word processing programs like Word
A Guide to World Building in Fantasy – Travel
There is a high chance your characters will go travelling, especially the adventurous types who love a good quest. I
Five things which have helped me become a better beta reader
Beta Readers are invaluable to writers. They put their trust in them to read and critique their work. So what