If you claim you don’t like books, it’s because you haven’t read the right book yet. If you have read a book and haven’t fallen head first into it’s world and become consumed by it, then you are reading the wrong types of books. Not all books are the same, they are wide and varied, … More Why You Should Read.
Finding time to write in a day can be really hard sometimes. Some days are just so overwhelmingly busy, but it is important for every writer to try and write every day, even if it’s for twenty minutes, even if it’s only 200 words. I had heard of the tip to take a note pad … More Writing Tip Wednesday: Something I learnt from Lauren Oliver.
Hi everyone, I just updated my open submissions page. I now have 7 opportunities listed. 4 which are new. There are two new international submissions (1 for flash fiction and 1 for an anthology for dark vampire stories) and two new Australian submissions both for short stories comps giving big cash prizes. check out my … More Open Submission Page Updated.
Inspiration is all around and can come from many different things at any given time. If you are anything like me, then you don’t just get one idea at a time. So what are you suppose to do with the abundance of ideas that come to you? How do you decide which one to write … More Writing Tip Wednesday: Dealing with an abundance of ideas.
You read heaps of them right? Novels, that is. You enjoy them, and you think to yourself, ‘I could do this, it’s going to be so easy’. You even get the idea for what you think will be a fantastic story. But then you have to get that idea out of your head and on … More Writing Tip Wednesday: So you want to write a novel?
Welcome to this week’s writing tip Wednesday. Today I’d like to direct you to a great post I saw on Pub(lishing) crawl, a website hosted by a group of authors and industry professionals who blog about all things writing, publishing and books. The post was titled ‘A Conversation between Critique Partners: Maintaining Passion for a … More Writing Tip Wednesday: Maintaining Passion for a Story.
Dear fantastic, lovely, wonderful followers and readers, I have been nominated for the Best Australian Blog Award 2013, and now is the time to vote for me in the people’s choice round. There are over 1000 entries in this round, and competition is tough, so I need your help. YOU CAN STILL VOTE EVEN IF … More Think my blog is good? Vote for me in the best Australian blog awards.
To be a writer, one must write, it is what writers do. You will start off with an idea, and then you’ll start to write, and if you want to have a completed story in the end then you have to keep writing, and if you keep writing you will eventually have that first draft … More Writing Tip Wednesday: Keep Writing.
Sometimes as readers we can get upset about choices characters make, or when characters die, or how a book ends. We scream in frustration, pull at our hair, throw the book (hopefully not) and curse the writer for doing that to a character. But here is something non-writer readers may not understand. Characters take on … More A Word on Characters: To a reader from a writer.
Welcome to this week’s Writing Tip Wednesday, today I want to focus on characters. When I look at why I love the books I do it always comes back to one thing: the characters. Characters are so important, they are what make your story. You need to get your reader invested in your characters so … More Writing Tip Wednesday: Getting to Know Your Characters.
Rochelle L. Sharpe 