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Book Review: The Places I’ve Cried In Public
Amelie was miserable at having to move down South—to a tiny little town, hours away from the friends and boyfriend she loved. But when her turn in the talent show drew the attention of Reese—charismatic, talented and overwhelmingly cool—he left little room in her head...
I’m Dreaming of a Write Christmas
It’s hard to make time for writing, even when our days are just their usual level of jam-packed. Introduce a holiday and it becomes virtually impossible, or at least it feels that way, to get any work done on a writing project. I’ve already talked about some of the...
Book Review: The Starless Sea
A mysterious book, discovered in the depths of the university library, sets Zachary Rawlins on a bewildering adventure. Swept up by forces beyond his understanding, he finds himself in an underground labyrinth filled with stories, inhabited by only the taciturn...
Are Your Supporting Characters Pulling Their Weight?
It isn’t always easy to draw a clear line between your main characters and your supporting characters or, at the other end of the character importance spectrum, between your supporting characters and your background characters. And that isn’t a problem most of the...
Book Review: Sculpt Yourself
Amber—24 years old, tech support worker, gay and staunchly feminist—is not impressed when she starts seeing adverts for a new drug which lets you move fat around your body to wherever you’d like it to be. Marketed exclusively at women, of course, it’s just been...
The Quick Fix for Info Dumping
Imagine the scene: you’ve sat down to write, you’re trundling along through your scene, happy as a clam, when you run into a stumbling block. There’s something you realise you haven’t explained—about the world your story is set in, or your character’s backstory, or...