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The Characteristics Of A True Writer

I once saw the actor Morgan Freeman speak at a university in Oxford in the UK. He was asked what he would have done if he had never been an actor, to which he replied, ‘I would have still acted in some way. If you...

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8. Multiple Spaces This is a simple error to describe and to avoid. Irregular spaces between words make your text look untidy and unprofessional. You can easily remove these using global search and replace: search for two spaces (two taps on your computer space bar) and...

Building Your Confidence as a First Time Writer- Part 2

Celebrate Small and Big Achievements Life is a string of celebrations. You can only get better if you learn to reward your small successes before you get the bigger ones. After completing your first chapter, your first major scene or the manuscript that is ready for...

Building Your Confidence as a First Time Writer - Part 1

Doing something for the very first time always seems so daunting and many times we try to talk ourselves out of doing what we set out to do. Still, the nagging little voice in our heads keeps persisting and won’t let us quit. We visualize...

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4. Paragraph Breaks How you choose to separate your paragraphs will depend on your personal preferences and whether you are writing fiction or certain kinds of non-fiction. Don’t make the awful mistake of mixing styles – I’ve seen it often enough and, believe me, it looks...

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6. Titles By ‘titles’ I don’t mean the title of your book or the titles of each individual chapter. Instead, I mean the titles of the people you write about, whether they are fictional or real persons. In practice, this often refers to their job title....

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2. Apostrophes A common mistake that confuses and annoys readers involves the humble apostrophe. If this mistake occurs on the opening page of your novel, it may well cause the reader to give up there and then. As with the other errors I point out, it’s...

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Ten Top Tips for Good Copyediting 1. Quotation Marks Surprised? Most people expect spelling to be at the top of this list. Correct spelling is vital, of course, and we’ll get to that soon. So why on earth begin with quotation marks? Because nothing screams Amateur! like incorrect...

Monsters from Mesopotamian Myths

In How to Write a Unique Spooky Story, I wrote about how to write a unique spooky story by either creating your own monster, creature, or horror yourself or by finding a monster that is not well known. I advised finding a monster by researching...