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There’s a story in my head.

It’s been there for about a year now.  Over that time it’s changed, mutated, grown, evolved.  But I haven’t got any of it down on “paper” yet.  It’s still just “there” changing over time, becoming longer, shorter, more mature.  I haven’t written a single word of it, but it still grows.
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Historical piece? Do your research!

One of the most common mistakes I see writers make when writing historical pieces or fantasy stories is a simple and glaring lack of research into the common day-to-day existence of people living in tymes of olde. It’s easy to overlook the little things, and to simply assume that “they did it every day, [...]

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Take a walk with your character

You’ve created the perfect character, or so you thought. You’ve done your homework. You’ve given her a past, an outlook on life and you know what drives her. You’ve got her physiological details down so well that you can rattle off her height, weight, body type and exact location of any scars [...]

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Emotions: your character’s and your own

I wrote a chapter of “Fae Death”, a work I’m collaborating on, the other night. It wasn’t very lengthy, only around 2,000 words, but by the closing sentence I was exhausted, both physically and emotionally. I couldn’t bring myself to do so much as look over what I’d written until the next morning.
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