To be human is to be a storyteller. Whether it be simply answering the question of “What did you do today?” or telling a joke, we all tell tales. If we look at our modern media, what do virtually all of them have in common? They tell a story. Movies, books, comics, television, even video […]
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I walked my kids to school today in a torrential downpour. OK, that’s a slight exaggeration, but it was a good hard rain, the likes of which we haven’t really seen yet. It got me thinking, just how much consideration do I give to weather in my writing. Surprisingly, I realised the answer was very
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While I have never been diagnosed, I believe I have a number of ADD tendencies. I tend to move from one task to another, leaving various tasks only half complete. It’s hard for me to sit in one place doing only one thing for too long. Obviously, you can see how this makes being a
So you sit down to your work in progress. In your brain, scenes are flashing that you are about to write. You are inspired! You know deep down that what you are about to write is the turning point of your novel. It is this one spot where everyone hits the ground running and doesn’t
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If you follow me on Twitter, or just check out my Twitter feeds on the site, you might have noticed my two tweets from yesterday that stated, As great ideas increasingly come, they bring with them certain logic problems to be solved #amwriting Great thing about solving logic problems though, it helps to deepen the
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Sometimes, as writers, we feel the need to use large and overly cumbersome words to express ourselves. This is probably due to an inner need to sound intelligent, or perhaps to create a certain effect (such as stringing a number of similar sounding words together). But is this appropriate for Young Adult fiction? Peta of
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When approaching Young Adult fiction, there is a singular holy grail of modern achievement. I can’t recall a series that had such equal appeal across age and gender. Naturally, I’m talking about Harry Potter. Now, when you have a series as big as Harry, there are going to be the naysayers and pundits that want
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