Is it wrong for someone who writes for a living to admit they once had a habit of skipping whole chapters of books? Of course I’m, uhh, asking for a friend… 😅 No, yeah, okay, it’s me. In my teens, I was very very much into the Baby-Sitters Club series. I must have read most of the …
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Showing: 1 - 5 of 5 ArticlesWriting rules I don’t care about as much as I used to
1. “Show, don’t tell” Just about every writer on earth will have heard this one. It’s a great bit of pocket wisdom to pass down to a beginner, but the more I write—and read—the more I realise this advice is to be wielded like a tool. You need to pick the right moments to use …
Three things I learned while writing The Guy from the Internet
When the blog coordinator from Romance Writers of Australia asked me to share three things I learned while writing The Guy from the Internet, I thought long and hard about what I wanted to say. Truth is, writing that book taught me a lot about a lot of things, so it was hard to pick just …
10 most common writing obstacles every new writer faces
I don’t consider myself an expert in writing, but friends and new acquaintances often query me about it since I do it for a living. Their questions step up a notch too once they find out I’ve actually released a book and am not just scribbling sad-girl poems in my diary 😛So here’s a little …
Creating characters — it’s never from scratch
Sometimes when I hear authors talk about their character creation process, I wonder if I’m doing enough work on mine. For starters, I don’t think I’ve ever created a character from scratch. I have no idea if they’re coffee or tea drinkers (unless it’s important to the story somehow). And I don’t even think about …