Fiction

Any fiction genre book can benefit from a touch of romance in it. However, how do you incorporate romance into a thriller book for instance, in a way, which doesn’t make the story lose its overall plot, which is exciting, and fast-paced? The following infographic will help you. If you found this infographic useful, please retweet it, repin it or share it on Facebook. … [Read more...] about 5 Tips to Help You Include Romance in Another Genre [Infographic]

If you’re a writer about to embark on the writing of your first book, the activity at hand may seem a little scary, confusing even. However, writing a story for the first time is like anything else in life. We do a task, we learn from the experience and we get better and more skilful as we repeat it. The 5 tips in the following infographic will help you to pen your first book, … [Read more...] about 5 Tips to Help You Write a Book [Infographic]

Prequel novellas, short stories or snippets are works where the story takes place before the events in your novel. Prequel novellas can have the same character cast that appears in your novel, or different characters that live in the same universe and get mentioned or appear later in the novel. A prequel novella can have its own separate plot from the main novel, it can be … [Read more...] about 5 Benefits of Writing a Prequel Novella

The scenes in your stories should flow one after another, like blocks of dominoes. You hit the first one and the rest follow until the end. But, if you don’t get that feeling when reviewing what you’ve written, it means you need to work on structuring your scenes. There is no predetermined length of a scene, or a number of words you must write. In fact, a scene can be shown … [Read more...] about How to Create Brilliant Scenes in Your Stories

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