Category: How to Write

  • Notes To Make Writing Easier

    Notes To Make Writing Easier

    Writing is a lot of hard work… it’s also a crazy amount of words. At a minimum of 60,000, creeping up to a potential amount of 120,000 words if you write epic fantasy sagas. It’s a lot of information to remember. Especially if your story then becomes a series. Now obviously there are notes that…

  • 62 Questions for Novel Planning

    62 Questions for Novel Planning

    I collated these questions during my years at university – some from creative writing teachers, others from exercises or books. This list is not meant to cover every question you’ll need to consider when writing a book – it just covers some main ones. Planning isn’t always for everyone and even as a planner myself,…

  • Kill Your Darlings

    Kill Your Darlings

    Fellow writers I hope you’re finding useful things on my blog to help with writing that story! I’m slowly building up an archive of writing posts to support you with your goals. Now, if you are anything like me, most of your writing results in some deaths. I write Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Gothic, Horror, Historical and…

  • World Building For Your Fantasy Novel

    World Building For Your Fantasy Novel

    If you are a writer, I hope you take the information from this post and find it useful in the future. Novels, no matter what genre, are set in a world that needs to be explored. Your world will greatly affect what kind of novel it will be and vice versa. It is important to consider…

  • The Fascination with Grey Characters

    The Fascination with Grey Characters

    Why are we as a species so profoundly interested in characters that aren’t clear cut good guys? I know for a fact that I am… so much so that clear cut good guys actually bore me. To clarify if you are unsure, grey characters are those that are inherently neither ‘good’ nor ‘bad’. To be…

  • NaNoWriMo As Told By 4 Writers

    NaNoWriMo As Told By 4 Writers

    I know it’s only September but if you’re even considering doing National Novel Writing Month this year, then it’s time to start thinking! If you plan to smash through NaNoWriMo then it can only help to read the advice of some seasoned veterans of previous Novembers… Hannah N. Richter ‘I’m Hannah Richter. I write mostly…