Category: Writing Tips
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How to Keep Yourself Accountable as a Writer
With the release of The Relic Spell less than week away (!) and a host of responsibilities weighing me down, I haven’t had much chance to work on the second book in The Phyrian War Chronicles. I need to get a move on with it, though, if I want to have it done in a…
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What fiction writers can learn from video games
After several months of abstaining, I spent the better part of this Sunday playing video games. It’s not like I don’t have anything I should be doing—my to-do list is neverending. But time you enjoyed wasting isn’t wasted, or however the saying goes, right?Still, I wanted to make myself feel better about “wasting” my Sunday,…
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Revision Strategies for When All Seems Lost
This week, I decided that the writing tip I wanted to share with you all would be easier to show in a video than a blog post! This video covers my revision process for The Relic Spell. I share a few strategies I developed along the way to get it from a total mess of…
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Eight Strategies for Choosing Chapter Titles
I’ve heard all sorts of opinions about whether you should give titles to your chapters. Some readers say they love chapter titles, others hate them, others simply don’t notice whether they’re there.In my first novel, Blue Rabbit, I used snippets of song lyrics as chapter titles. My second novel, The Relic Spell, which goes on…