Blog Posts
For much of the past week, I’ve had my head down, ploughing through the first chapters of more than twenty different novels, offering critiques and advice on how I thought they could be improved. While doing so, I noticed...
You’ve heard this one before: adverbs are bad – don’t use adverbs – blah, blah, blah. Well, there’s a number of excellent reasons behind that old mantra.
There are plenty of blogs and guides that can tell you how to write. This isn’t one of them. Sure, I could tell you what to do, but a thousand people online are already doing that, some good, some not so good...
Adverbs: That Old Chestnut
Are You Still Doing This? Stop!
Writing My First Novel
Type ‘writing tips’ or anything similar into Google and you’ll get all sorts of advice on what to do, what not to do, and how to do things better than you currently are. Most of it is good advice, but...