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What Jack Reacher’s Fist Can Teach Writers About Sentence Structure by Sam Leith

We’re often told that the secret to making writing clear and accessible is to use

When More is Too Much: Family Business by Muriel Bolger

It is said that you can tell whether a book is going to be any

Location, Location: Andrea Carter on Treacherous Strand

Stephen King has said that ‘locale and texture are much more important to the reader’s

Really Looking by Sophie Nicholls

My first pair of glasses are National Health issue, blue plastic, with lenses that rub

Show and tell: what’s the difference and why does it matter? By Sheila Bulger

The difference between ‘show’ and ‘tell’ was one of the first things I had to

A Checklist for Creating Sexual Tension by Sierra Cartwright

Romance novels rake in well over a billion dollars every year. Probably more so than

Set Your Fiction in Locations You Love By Jenni Ogden

I love reading books that transport me to another place—a country I’ve never been to,

Location, Location: On Staying Put by Jan Carson

“It is a great blessing, perhaps the greatest blessing a writer can have, to find

It’s All in the Detail: Using Historical Detail to Create Scenes by Liza Perrat

Very few historical fiction writers have university degrees in history. Authors of historical fiction are,

Creating a Color Thesaurus by Ingrid Sundberg

Ingrid Sundberg is passionate about stories that look into the shadows of our vulnerability. She

The Vital Details by Sheena Wilkinson

I’ve always loved reading and writing historical fiction. Ever since I fell in love with

Writing in Full Colour by Sarah Webb

The second book in my Songbird Cafe Girls Middle Grade series (age 8 to 12),

Writing Action Scenes: Really Useful Links by Paul Anthony Shortt

I love action scenes. They’re some of my favourite things to write, so much so

When Setting is a Character: The Hiding Place by John Burley

Menaker State Hospital is a curse, a refuge, a place of imprisonment, a necessity, a

How to Show Not Tell

This is possibly the number one rule for writing! The most common mistake new (and

Inspiring Locations – Five Years On…with Michelle Jackson

It’s June 2013 and five years since my first novel was published. In some ways

A Sense of Place by Paula Leyden

Both The Butterfly Heart and The Sleeping Baobab Tree are set in different parts of

A Sense of Memory Part 2

‘There were two walnut trees… two walnut trees… one is still there, it is!’ At

A Sense of Memory Part 1

“A dunghill at a distance sometimes smells like musk, and a dead dog like elder-flowers.”

Laurence O’Bryan on Writing with Emotional Hooks

Making an emotional connection with readers is critically important whatever type of fiction you are