Essay #5 —The Scent and a Tickle: Your First 500 Words 🎶I really don’t like your point of view.I know you’ll never change.You’re ninety-nine percent an embarrassment,with just one quality. I don’t mind it when you [whistle].🎶—Eliza Doolittle, Skinny Genes (2010) Most people don’t realise that it’s not Eliza Doolittle doing the whistling in her…
Essay #4 — 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…
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…