Whether you’re a plotter or a pantser – or somewhere on the scale in between – I would recommend starting a book bible before you start drafting. If you’re a discovery writer like me, and often you don’t know a lot of the details about your characters and plot and world before your start… Continue reading Free book bible
Author: Katharine Tucker
Guest blog: On writing trauma
I am going to gently put down my natural impulse to guard myself with statistics and quotations, and try to share my heart with you instead
My NaNoWriMo Experience
Hundreds of thousands of writers take part in NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month – every year. What what is it, and did it work for me?
Show, don’t tell workbook
Download a free workbook on how to ‘show don’t tell’
The Cave – a short story
What if you hadn’t come along? What if you had just said… “no”?
Creating your own language
To me, language is everything. The way a person, or a people, use language can tell you a huge amount about their background. Language can truly tell history.
Avoid info-dumping
Sci-fi and fantasy is prone to the info-dump. So, how do you avoid boring your readers with information whilst making sure they know everything they need to, to understand the world you’ve created?
Lessons from my running self
On the face of it running and writing are two very different hobbies. But each has taught me very similar lessons.
Recent reads
My recent reads