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Let’s talk about the pesky little words ‘or’ and ‘nor’. Some simple guidelines will help you use these words correctly, but the gramma...

When a character tells another character something they obviously already know, this is known as ‘As you know, Bob’ dialogue, and it c...

Authors are on a hero’s journey. Their quest? To write and publish novels. Editors are the mentors who aid those heroes. And here’s wh...

By how much can chapters in a novel vary in length? I’ve come across a lot of novels-in-progress in which chapter lengths are all over...

The ultimate sin when describing characters in a novel: writing a long list of physical attributes that are mentioned once when charac...

Many people start writing a novel with passion and enthusiasm, but only a few go on to actually complete their books. In a lot of case...

Writing a novel can be an exciting journey, but it’s also a huge and complex undertaking. It requires a huge amount of perseverance an...

Reading back your first-person narrative, you realise you’ve started nearly every sentence with the pronoun ‘I’. It stands out to you,...

I hate it when authors call their book their baby. I understand why some authors say this. I get that your book came from you, that yo...

I know that you know the answer to this question: it depends. It depends on the writer, and it depends on the novel. Even so, you’re c...

Asking for feedback while writing is a tricky thing. Because it takes so long to write a novel, it makes sense that you’d crave some p...

What is it about the semicolon that is so alluring to writers? Is it because it feels like a sophisticated punctuation mark – more adv...