Before you start It’s a great day! You’ve settled on an idea for your work of fiction. But before you dive headlong into the first chapter, have you decided on a setting for your tale? Imagine how disturbing it would be if your story is a historical fiction around the time of the Irish potato […]
Break the “I didn’t write today” habit
Does this sound like your writing habit? It’s the end of another day. As you climb into bed, you mourn the fact that you didn’t do any writing. Again. But you promise yourself you’ll write tomorrow. Except you don’t. And the cycle continues. Ad nauseam. Until you want to hit your head against a tree […]
Outlining: The Way to Escape the Idea Jungle!
You did what I suggested and brainstormed ideas for your book. Now what? If you read my last post then you’ll know the next step is outlining. What is outlining? Outlining is simply a way to get your ideas into some sort of order, to organize the chaos! You wouldn’t want to read a book […]