Angela Clarke is The Sunday Times bestselling author of the Social Media Murder Series, including Follow Me, Watch Me, and Trust Me. Angela has produced an extensive collection of Writing Tips video tutorials on...

Writing is often described as a lonely process, but it doesn’t have to be. What if you wrote a book with someone else? When I first told people I was...

There’s a scene towards the end of Muriel Spark’s The Finishing School where Rowland Mahler, a frustrated creative writing teacher, lectures his class a few days after the burial of...

How to write from multiple points of view and still maintain balance throughout the novel? This is a daunting task because, truth be told, there is no magic formula to...

What prompts an author to do a dramatic about turn with their career and decide to opt for a complete change of genre? For me it was a number of...

When international bestseller Alex Barclay sang the praises of Scrivener in this excellent article, we thought we’d investigate and find out what it’s all about. This is what Alex said: The...

I’ve never been great at plots. The aspects of writing that inspire me, that once in a while feel like they come naturally, are things like lyricism and gradual character...

I began writing novels in 2010, after I’d completed a degree in English Literature and Language with the Open University. Before that I wrote short stories; they might appear easier...

When I was around 17 years old, I mentioned to my father that I’d like to write a novel. I’m not sure if I was thinking about a career in...

In all the years I’ve been writing novels, there’s one piece of advice that’s stuck with me: find the core of your novel and stick with it. There are other...