Dialogue is like the Christmas lights on your story’s tree. When it’s done right, everything sparkles and feels magical. When it’s done wrong, it’s a tangled mess that makes you want to scream into your hot chocolate. If you want your characters to sound like real people and not like creepy robotic elves, this festiveContinue reading “Mastering Dialogue: A Christmas Guide”
Category Archives: Getting Unstuck With Your Writing
How to Stop Procrastinating
I’m going to tell you a secret. I procrastinated writing this all week. I kept putting it off and putting it off until it became this big guilty monster I was ignoring. I hate that feeling, don’t you? It makes me feel small, and squirmy and all knotted up in my stomach. I start makingContinue reading “How to Stop Procrastinating”
10 Common Writing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
I’m going to admit something, right now. I have been guilty of almost all of these mistakes at one point or another. I have been writing for years and yet, even now, I will still make some of these mistakes. That’s because they are really common, bad writing habits that are easy to fall into! Continue reading “10 Common Writing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them”
How to Start Writing
It can be really intimidating, looking at the shelves in a bookshop, all those stories, all those ideas, all those writers. Where did they start? They started, just like you. Human beings are instinctive story tellers, we do it almost without thinking, chatting with our friends, telling our families about what we’ve been up to,Continue reading “How to Start Writing”
Moor Imagination 