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Archives for March 2016

How to Write Meaningful Conflict in Your Stories

By Georgina Roy

There are many definitions of what conflict means in a story. Some writers even equate the word story with the word conflict, where story is nothing more than a series of events revolving around a single conflict. However, this kind of external conflict, where the hero battles a villain and either wins or loses in the end is not enough to make a story worthwhile. Every story, … [Read more...] about How to Write Meaningful Conflict in Your Stories

The Book That Changed My Life: Carol Wyer Picks Candide by Voltaire

By Novelicious

Carol Wyer won The People's Book Prize Award for non-fiction 2015 and writes regularly for the Huffington Post. Her new book, Life Swap, is released on 22nd April. I have always been an avid reader. Evenings you would find my whole family sitting in the lounge, each with a book. Ill health that kept me bed bound for many months allowed me to devour most of the books … [Read more...] about The Book That Changed My Life: Carol Wyer Picks Candide by Voltaire

How to Fully Unlock Your Creative Potential When Writing Your Stories

By Georgina Roy

When you’re writing, if you are not able to go inside your story and inside your protagonist’s mind, and let go of reality for that period, it means your creativity is blocked. This can get to the extreme where it’s difficult to put words on the page. The story is there in your mind, you can taste it, but you’re unable to represent it so that others can enjoy in it. Below, we … [Read more...] about How to Fully Unlock Your Creative Potential When Writing Your Stories

Literary Love Letters: Dear Jane Green, from Anna Bell

By Novelicious

Dear Jane, Before I start, I should tell you that we met once at one of your book launches in London. I was the one who acted like a giddy teenager when you spoke to me. I've met lots of authors over the years, but you seemed to push me into total fangirl territory, and here's why. I fell in love with your writing in my late teens, at a time in my life when I craved … [Read more...] about Literary Love Letters: Dear Jane Green, from Anna Bell

My Writing Room by Carol Wyer

By Novelicious

Carol Wyer won The People's Book Prize Award for non-fiction in 2015 and writes regularly for the Huffington Post. Her new book, Life Swap, is released on 22nd April. I often joke that I hide away like writers from some bygone era, swaddled in voluminous, knitted garments to stay warm, scribbling away in my garret but in truth that’s what I do. We moved to what we … [Read more...] about My Writing Room by Carol Wyer

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