Category: Writing advice
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How to edit a novel and save your sanity as a writer
So you’ve written a novel, and now you want to do what? Edit it? Delete words you spent hours carefully piecing together to form a narrative. Why would you want to do that? 😬
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How to write a noir insult
How do you write dialogue that punches hard and entertains the reader? Well, it’s not as hard as you think – it only takes a little lateral thinking to write a great noir insult.
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How to Find Time to Write
So you really want to write a book, but you just don’t have time. It’s something I hear ALL THE TIME from people when they find out I’m a novelist. ‘I wish I could do what you’re doing, but I just can’t find the time to write.’
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How to Get a Literary Agent
In July, I achieved one of my writing life goals by signing with Paul Stevens at Donald Maass Literary Agency. Since then I’ve had a lot of questions from friends and aspiring writers about how to get a literary agent. When you don’t have an agent, getting one seems like the holy grail of writing,…
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28 Epic Short Story Tips from Australian Genre Writers
With the recently released And Then… anthology chock full of amazing Aussie authors, I couldn’t resist drawing on their collective writing knowledge. I asked them for their best short story tips and they delivered!
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Essential creative tools: Wonderbook by Jeff VanderMeer
I’m starting a new section on my blog to discuss some of the tools that help foster creativity in a practical way. The first book I’m featuring is Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction. Written by weird fiction author Jeff VanderMeer (The Southern Reach Trilogy, Finch), Wonderbook is a prolific and thorough overview of the…