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  • Publishers Love Well Turned Out Manuscripts. Here's How to Prepare Yours
    Send in a sloppy, grubby manuscript and your chances of rejection are greatly increased. Send in a smart, clean, tidy manuscript and the publishers offices will ring with the cry - "Hey, here's someone who knows how to do it properly! Break out the Champaign! Bring on the dancing girls!' But maybe not the latter if it's a Monday.
  • Planning Your Novel is the Key to Success
    Some writers claim they can sit down with a good idea for a novel and bash away until it's finished. It takes an extraordinary mind to do that. Most of today's writers will tell you that they prepare a framework, a synopsis, from which to generate their 100,000 or so words. Here's a suggested system to achieve that.
  • Minor Characters in Your Story. Do You Really Need Them?
    The vast majority of fiction writers write short stories, whether they write for their own pleasure, for the writing circle they belong to, a competition or whether they aim to get them published. The temptation to bring in lots of exciting characters can be irresistible. But are they necessary?
  • How to Make Your Journal a Source of Great Ideas for Your Stories
    As a writer you may already keep a journal, or diary, and that's excellent. For those who don't as well as those who do I want to explore some of the exciting benefits of keeping one that you may not have realised.
  • Interviewing For Beginners
    You like people, you like talking, and you like getting out of the house. Great. You're practically an interviewer already! All you need now are these few handy tips and guidelines to get your first interview in the bag and off to a publisher.
  • All the Storylines You Could Ever Want with this Idea Generator (This is Not a Commercial!)
    The muse has done a bunk, the creative juices have withered on the vine and to cap it all the cat has just poo'd on your last packet of A4. You feel as if all your ideas have scurried off like lemmings looking for the nearest cliff. But all is not lost. For one thing if you bin the top five sheets the rest are probably OK. For another if you try the tactic below, you could end up saying 'Ha! Who needs a muse?'
  • Find Your Readers' Funny Bone and You're Set for Life
    More than ever before readers are crying out for something to lift them out of the tide of dire news and the pressures of modern life. To be able to bring a smile to peoples faces, or even make them laugh out loud, can prove to be a highly paid talent.
  • Fill in Background by Using Flashbacks
    What is a 'flashback'? Think of a flash of light illuminating a scene from the past and you've got it.
  • How to Get to the End of Your Story Without Coming a Cropper
    Should you know exactly how your story ends before you start or leave it to chance? Different writers go about it in different ways. Find out what suits you best.
  • Use Emotion to Make Your Characters Real Living People
    When we think about emotion in a story the word can mean different things to different people. The main divide and therefore the main difference is, of course, the male/female one. It might seem obvious, but if there is any doubt as to which you are writing for, men or women, think about it because your story must be couched to suit.
  • How to Use Dialogue to Engage Your Reader's Imagination
    In any short story or novel dialogue is the element that raises the readers level of interest and moves the story on. But dialogue isn't just dialogue. Here's how to make it a whole lot more exciting than 'he said', 'she said'.
  • Dialogue Versus Narrative. Which is Right For You?
    Do your readers loose consciousness ploughing through pages of narrative description? Or are they perplexed and bewildered because your snappy dialogue leaves them wondering just who is talking to who? It's time to get your narrative/dialogue balance right. Here's how.
  • How Dialogue Can Convey Your Characters' Personalities
    It's true to say that a character doesn't become a real person until he or she speaks. So what can we do to convey to our readers what type of person a particular character is just by the way they speak?
  • How to Give Your Articles That Vital Difference to Make Them Sell
    Magazine editors are always on the lookout for well written, but above all, different, one-of-a-kind articles. It's up to us writers to give them what they need.
  • How to Find Exciting New Topics to Write About
    Now, seriously. What can be difficult about turning out an article of 500 to 1000 words? You enjoy writing, you've got a good head on your shoulders, and you have a grasp of loads of subjects that interest you personally. So what's the problem?

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