It's that time of the year again, as the Northern hemisphere slips into the burnt orange hues of autumn and the Southern hemisphere whips out its sparkly hot pants ready for spring, writers around the …
Create Killer Villains: Lessons From Villainelle
Everybody loves a hero. If you've hung around here long enough, you'll have heard me say that a dozen times already. But heroes – no matter how much we love them – are often predictable. Something …
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5 Tactics to Master Killer Short Story Endings
I've always thought the 'short story' was one of those irritating elephants in the room. My particular brand of short story elephant, is made of shiny gold, and spends 100% of his time glaring at me …
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7 Tricks To Differentiating Dialogue – Geoff Le Pard
I am truly honoured to be part of my wonderful blogging buddies blog book tour. Geoff Le Pard is a writer an author extraordinaire, as well as being a half decent ex lawyer and a seriously nifty …
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