journey

New blog post by Claire G The Power of Questions How can questions drive plot? Here’s a summary of what I’ve learned. Un-put-downable books utilise these types of questions: The long (big) question: this is the novel’s overarching question which can be used in your elevator pitch and is...

New blog post by Claire G Character Character arc/emotional journey/B plot – whatever you call it, it’s vital that you have one. But what does this really mean? As usual, this post is as much a reminder for myself as to hopefully help other writers. What does your character want? This is...

Searching the audible 2 for 1 sale had me appalled at the lack of original ideas out there. Probably 2/3rds of the books were series and those series were basically fan fiction for other series. Which led me to trailers of movies coming up. Same thing. The English-speaking world seems stuck...

But then, that's the beauty of writing stories - each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there's no feeling like it.' T C Boyle