Essay #5 āThe Scent and a Tickle: Your First 500 Words š¶I really donāt like your point of view.I know youāll never change.Youāre ninety-nine percent an embarrassment,with just one quality. I donāt mind it when you [whistle].š¶āEliza Doolittle, Skinny Genes (2010) Most people donāt realise that itās not Eliza Doolittle doing the whistling in her…
We all wish life was more like a video game. In games, the rules are clear: level up, save the princess, save the world, or just get the cute guy with the freckles to ask you out on a second date. You know heās not the canon pick, but Love-Love Princess 4 is all about…
Essay #4 ā Map Your Novel. Chapter 30 of The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing, by the editors of Writer’s Digest When you see the Southern Cross for the first time You understand now why you came this way. Cuz the truth you might be runnin’ from is so small But it’s as big as…
In todayās society of ceaseless overachievers, I canāt help but feel a little left out every time I walk into a bookstore ā itās flooded with how-to-become-successful guides. Iāve never read one, so I canāt say how good they areā¦ Can bestsellers really teach you how to write themselves? But on a second thought, Iām…
Essay #3! Rituals, Methods and Blueprints – Chapter 29 of The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing Rituals and Methods Hello again, fellow word floggers! It’s time for another essay on The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing, by the editors of Writer’s Digest. Let’s hear from James Jones first, where he posts a personal tidbit in…
Every battlefield has its terrain. They say love is a battlefield. I donāt buy it. Iāve played Battlefieldāless expensive, less demanding, and at least the objectives make sense. Alone, you can live in pizza-stained trackies without consequence. With her? Those got retired fastānow itās morning stretches and juice masquerading as food. Turns out levelling up…
Catalogue #1 in our Proud Partnership Programme with Bardic Planet. Here at Dubious Derivativesā¢ Limited, your wellbeing is ourā¦ third priority. (Right behind profit margins and plausible deniability.) Still, we know that being a protagonist is hard workāwhat with all the reincarnations, cursed contracts, and suspiciously convenient power-ups. Thatās why, in a proud partnership with…
A true blue reader falls in love with the book they want to read. Here’s how I fell in love with The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing, by the Editors of Writer’s Digest. Essay #2 – Buying the Book Hello again, my lovelies. I’ve received such a great response for posting my first Essay on…
Weāre all the main characters in our own lives. Only you can live your story. When you passed off that loud gas as squeaky trousersā All you, buddy. When you asked your crush out and the whole school laughed? Probably shouldnāt have cried, but you still commanded centre stage. Even now, while youāre reading instead…
(A self-help book published by the editors of Writer’s Digest.) āAlways begin with your protagonist. Establish time and place, and announce the stakes.āā N. M. Kelby, self-help author of The Constant Art of Being a Writer āSometimes one can overanalyze. If you preordain, you stifle yourself. Have a general idea, and let the rest come naturally,…