Writing
No matter which genre you write in or what age group you are targeting, writing fiction and/or non-fiction is not easy. The craft of writing is a lonely business which needs dedication and thousands of hours of writing practice in order to learn how to plot novels, or short stories, and then add realistic characters and settings. It can be the most frustrating experience you will ever encounter, but writing can also enrich your life. All you need is patience, experience and perseverance.
To the right is a list of categories which will take you to posts I’ve written on writing tips in recent years. Or, you can scan the list of the last 100 posts of the subject. There are also writing resources that I found helpful in my own journey as a writer, which I hope you will find useful too.
If you should find problem links, please send me a quick email by using the contact form above and to the right (the green envelope), so that I can fix the problem.
Good luck with your writing.
- Planning a Novel from the Beginning – This is an unfinished part by part series.
- Network of Australian Contacts
- Writing Course: Self-Editing Your Work
- Editing Course: Using Technology
- Editing Course: Perfect Punctuation II
- Short Story Tips
- Digital Rights Contracts
- Advice to Young Writers from Horace
- Indie Author Community
- Talking about Manuscripts
- Setting Stories Free
- Finish Your Manuscript
- Medieval Demographics Made Easy
- From A Child’s View
- Varuna The Writers’ House
- Australian Writers Marketplace Online
- Learning to Detach Yourself when Receiving Critiques
- Software Review: Snowflake Pro
- Using the Voice Journal Writing Technique
- Character Development, Using the Voice Journal Writing Technique
- What would the reader do?
- Publishers Weekly
- Resource Central Directory
- Some Mad Hope: When Nothing Is Good
- Author Interview: Pamela Freeman
- Inspiration Friday: The Dragon Cometh
- 30 Days of WorldBuilding
- To Plan or Not to Plan
- Action and Result
- Inspiration Friday: No E
- Inspiration Friday: First Words
- Inspiration Friday: Exercises for Inspiration
- Author Interview: Ellen Jackson
- A Writer’s Job
- Author Interview: Sean Williams
- Author Interview: Kate Forsyth
- Difference between Protagonist, Antagonist and Contagonist
- Author Interview: Chris Howard
- How Do I Edit?
- Author Interview: Deborah Woehr
- Author Interview: Justin Elliott
- Quote: Approach
- Author Interview: Me!
- Quote: Persist
- Quote: Failure
- Writing on the Move
- Author Interview: Jim C Hines
- Author Interview: Simon Haynes
- Quote: Words
- TiddlyWiki
- Author Interview: Alan Baxter
- Research: Comparing Young Reader Books
- Planning a Scene
- Anthology: Press Release
- Macmillan New Writing
- Designing A Cover For Your Book- A guide for self publishers
- Three Easy Ways to Motivate Yourself to Write
- The Lure of a New Project
- The “RL Technique” J.K. Rowling Uses To Hook Her Readers
- Write Nonfiction With Passion: Four Steps To Emotionally Charge Your Article
- Using Index Cards
- Making Magic Real in your Fantasy Writing
- Finding the REAL Problem
- How to Murder Your Muse
- How to Get More Writing Done
- Enforcing a Deadline
- Russian Roulette or Author Guidelines
- How to Plot Your Novel
- Grouping Your Characters
- A Plot Notebook
- Grab Your Reader With Conflict
- Failure and Success
- Non-Fiction: The First Steps
- And Now for the Sequel
- Uncommon Book Promotion Tips
- More than just “Find and Replace”
- Write, Create & Promote a Best Seller
- BBC – Get Writing
- The 36 Plots
- Some Dos and Don’ts in Writing
- What I Learned
- Piers Anthony’s Internet Publishing
- Keep Writing
- Writing Prompts
- Recipe for Successful Writing
- Publishing with Lulu
- Being Invisible
- Where to Start
- Flow Like a Mountain Stream
- Burn It, Bury It, Let It Live
- Quote
- Duotrope’s Digest
- Evil Editor
- Leaving Successful Characters Dead or Alive
- Failure
- If I was an editor…
- Grammar and Punctuation
- Active and Passive Verbs
- Love and Skill
- Thoughts
- Institute of Children’s Literature
- First Rights
Please click through to the page of links that interest you the most. I have put them into a couple of categories in order to make it easier for you.
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Blogroll
- Anna's Obsession
- Benjamin Solah
- Chris Howard’s Writing Blog
- Deborah Woehr
- Enter the Laughter
- Get Me Writing
- Holly’s Pocket Full of Words
- Indie Author
- Jim C Hines
- Karen Tyrrell
- Lee Carlon
- Letters from the Manor
- Never Was
- Self Publishing Adventure
- Sherry D Ramsey
- Simon Haynes
- Some Mad Hope
- Steve Thorn
- Struggling Writer
- The Book Deal Blog
- The Word, according to Alan Baxter
- Write Anything…
- Writing My Ghosts




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