A good beginning is like an open door, inviting the reader to come in, settle in your armchair with a nice cup of tea, as you take them along on the journey they came for. So, how can you throw open that door and invite your readers in?

Wildly Wordy Blogposts

Nailing Your Story's Opening Lines: A Brief Guide On Beginnings

Finding inspiration for fictional settings from your sofa or studio flat can be challenging. Join me this week as I share some quick & dirty tips on how to find setting inspiration during national lockdown!

Setting Inspiration During Lockdown

I love NaNo. But that is not to say it hasn't been a hard month. There is a reason it is called a challenge. But challenges are a great breeding ground for new lessons. And even though I've done NaNo a fair few times now, there's still more to learn...

7 Lessons I Learnt from Doing Camp NaNo During a Global Pandemic

Routines aren't just good for keeping on top of your eating habits or your exercise regime. They also work for creative endeavours, like writing or painting or anything else you're passionate about. Find out how to build a writing routine you can finally stick to.

How a Writing Routine Can Help You

Whether writing can truly be taught has been discussed time and time again. Why are we so fascinated by this question, and what can we actually learn from creative writing instructors?

Can You Teach Creative Writing?

Deleting parts of your own manuscript is one of the most painful parts of writing a book. How can you get over cutting out something you worked so hard on?

Cutting Big: The Hardest Lesson I Ever Learned About Editing

There are a lot of guides out there on how to self-edit your manuscript and they give many good pointers on polishing up your writing. But often, they focus only on the nitty-gritty, sentence-level part of editing. But what do you do if you've got bigger problems than that? Don't worry. I've got you.

Five Easy Steps to Follow for Effective Self-Editing

Every writer faces writer's block, and nine times out of ten you can bet it all comes back down to fear. Really looking at why you're scared, opening your mind to that fear, while hard, is often the most important step you can take.

Overcoming Writer's Block: Investigate Your Fears

Our storytelling past and present highlights how much we are connected through sharing our stories.

Unknown Voyages: A Celebration of Storytelling

Using action tags effectively can easily enrich your story and take a well-structured, focused, but ultimately flat scene to new heights. Listen to the podcast or read my blog to learn how to make them do the heavy lifting for you.

Action Tags: What They Are, How You Use Them, And Why They Enrich Your Story

Self-doubt is the enemy of productivity and as such it can often derail our writing practice. But mastering the art of overcoming self-doubt is difficult, not least because it seems less like a single battle and more like an ongoing war. Difficult, yes, but not impossible.

The Truth About Conquering Self-Doubt as a Writer

Life is not a race. But too often, it feels like it. Too often it feels like we have to be the youngest, most prolific, most talented writers in the world.

Racing Through Life: We Don't Have to Be Everything Already

In today's episode, I reflect on the importance of communication as a basis for true relationships and how understanding this can help make you a stronger writer.

The Key to Creating Realistic Bonds Between Characters

Every writer has their very own toolkit, their very own mix of things they reach for when creating, whether that is a favourite pen, a comfortable writing spot, or an outfit that helps get them into the right mood.

Get To Know Me #5: Peek Into My Writing Toolkit

In this episode I give an overview of common concepts and themes in my writing and introduce you to my current WIP and the ideas I challenge within it.

Get To Know Me #4: What I Write

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