This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022. I set out to write a novel in ten days, but I actually finished it in fourteen. Seventy thousand words in fourteen days. It usually takes me months to even smell the end of a first draft, so what’s the secret to doing it in … [Read more...] about The Secret Dreamworld of an Aspiring Author by Anna Bell – I Almost Wrote a Novel in 10 Days
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The Secret Dreamworld of an Aspiring Author by Anna Bell – I’m Writing A Novel in Ten Days!
This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022.No, I haven’t gone mad. I know that you’re not supposed to be able to write a novel in ten days, but I’ve got myself in a tricky predicament: I have to write a new novel, and I have to do it quickly. So I’ve got ten days off work, … [Read more...] about The Secret Dreamworld of an Aspiring Author by Anna Bell – I’m Writing A Novel in Ten Days!
The Secret Dreamworld of an Aspiring Author by Anna Bell – Why Do I Need An Agent?
This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022.This last week I had a really great writing week. I went to the RNA summer party and met lots of lovely authors, I got two five star reviews from readers I didn’t know on Amazon, and I had a bumper weekend of sales which means I’ve … [Read more...] about The Secret Dreamworld of an Aspiring Author by Anna Bell – Why Do I Need An Agent?
The Secret Dreamworld of an Aspiring Author by Anna Bell – Making The Same Mistakes
This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022. Like many aspiring authors I’ve been reading the Novelicious feature ‘What an Agent Wants’ with an eagle eye. I was cringing my way through reading ‘What are the five most common mistakes you find in Manuscript submissions’ – of … [Read more...] about The Secret Dreamworld of an Aspiring Author by Anna Bell – Making The Same Mistakes
The Secret Dreamworld of an Aspiring Author by Anna Bell – Self Publishing: The Ugly
This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022.When I told my husband the title of this column, he assumed it was called ‘the ugly’ based on what I looked like whilst conducting my rewrites and editing. Apparently harem pants, over-sized sweatshirt and hair swept back under ski … [Read more...] about The Secret Dreamworld of an Aspiring Author by Anna Bell – Self Publishing: The Ugly