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Teach Yourself Creative Writing , Dianne Doubtfire. Full of wondeful insight. My personal favourite however is The Five-Minute Writer by Margret Geraghty. I love it; it's refreshing and packed with ...

When you write, do you always have a particular audience in mind? I tend to write in a very literary style, so my work would probably appeal to a more ...

Many times I've been told that you have to SHOW the audience your incidents, rather than TELL or narrate them, or sum them up. With children's fiction, the language is ...

If your writing a romance, don't put the "first kiss" too early into the book: it should be about halfway through. This is because this is an important moment, a ...

As Saint Razorblade correctly says, "pass" is the past tense or the past participle of the verb "to pass": Having passed the shop, he approached the school. Time passed slowly. ...

Don't use italics. Start a new chapter or double space if they are unrelated to the action that's just happened. If it is, e.g.: "Glimpsing the mended vase made him ...

Actually, I like a lot of biblical names because they're simple and not overly fancy and you can play around with variations that already exist (i.e. so they're spelt differently, ...

Read some great sex scenes - learn from the masters! In Atonement , McEwan handles the passion brilliantly when Robbie and Cecilia are together in the library. And never forget ...

What goes into choosing character names? Do you use aptronyms (words that sound like the character's personality), ironical names (such as Will Dormer in the film Insomnia ) or just ...

Agreed. Your previous work can be so inspirational and motivating. Either that you know you can do better, or you are easily capable of producing work of an equivalent or ...

This has already been discussed! See the link below: Also, I would suggest only using expletives when ABSOLUTELY justified. Do not throw them around randomly or this will show a ...

Examples of free indirect speech: "...we will not ask how much of the fine lady, who could scarcely bear to hear the place mentioned." ( Hard Times , Charles Dickens) ...

These cropped up in my English Literature GCSE course and sounded like really interesting techniques to use. If you want to utilise them, how and when do you do it ...

When you transition from one character into another, make the differences really clear. Use free indirect speech (also known as free indirect style) or internal monologues so that the reader ...

I use a scrapbook to write drafts of my work in, but otherwise no. I need to, really... Argh.