This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022. I often bang the drum for goal-setting and I truly believe this is one of the most powerful strategies for getting your novel written, but there’s a way to super-charge its effectiveness: Tell someone else. Make yourself … [Read more...] about Write Your Novel – The Power of Accountability
Writing & Editing
How George Clooney’s Wedding Can Help Your Romance Story
Yes, it’s official. He’s no longer a bachelor and around 1 billion female hearts across the world have been broken. This weekend the dashing, handsome George Clooney has married his quite stunning fiancée Amal Alamuddin in Venice. There’s some consolation though, believe me, especially if you’re writing a romance story and looking for inspiration. You can use this momentous … [Read more...] about How George Clooney’s Wedding Can Help Your Romance Story
5 Tips for Creating Villains in Your Stories
One of the telltale signs of poor writing in fiction is when the characters are not given enough (or the right kind) of development. Nowhere is this more noticeable than in villains – readers are supposed to feel antagonized by the villain, not the writer. When readers start seeing so many holes in characterization that they end up hating the writer instead of the villain, then … [Read more...] about 5 Tips for Creating Villains in Your Stories
Rufi Thorpe’s Top Five Writing Tips
This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022. 1. A great writing teacher of mine, Raymond Obstfeld, used to always say: Everything can be fixed. I thought that was really a wonderfully comforting thing, especially for young writers who are scared to let their work be bad. In … [Read more...] about Rufi Thorpe’s Top Five Writing Tips
Novelicious Chats To…Kerry Fisher
This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022.Kerry Fisher has worked as an English teacher in Corsica and Spain, an elephant riding, theme-park reviewing travel journalist and as a holiday rep and grape picker in Tuscany. Today, she writes funny books for HarperCollins from … [Read more...] about Novelicious Chats To…Kerry Fisher