No matter if you've been writing for twenty years or if you are thinking about starting a book now - this is a question people will ask you, a question you'll ask yourself again and again. What is…
2018 was definitely a year full of emotions and roller-coasters for me. It had its up and downs, its great and not-so-great moments but there is no way in hell I am going to forget it.…
Last year I've made a similar post with a very long and compulsive list of books I felt I should read - all those I had at home gathering dust and calling to be read. Unfortunately life got…
If you're reading this blog you probably know already what NaNoWriMo is but let's cover the basics anyway. Who knows? We can be sharing the word with a new, staring writer. NaNoWriMo (short of National Novel Writing Month)…
It's been a while since my last post so I'm sorry about that :D It turns out creating a habit of managing a blog while trying to work, read, have a social life and sleep is very hard. Luckily, most…
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Last week we spoke about using different aspect of SETTING in our stories and namely, using sounds to enhance a scene, a character, an emotion. This week we move on to another aspect that can help us make…
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Recently I wrote another post called "The Role of Setting in Fiction" where we discussed how important the use of setting is and what kind of role it plays in any kind of book, especially fiction. I know…
As writers we have to think of so many things to get our story to work - interesting characters and places, unexpected turns and twists, impeccable grammar and punctuation and so on, and so on. There are some…
So after some soul-searching and unpleasant head-banging in the writer's block I have decided that it is time to take a short break from writing and focus a bit more on reading and learning how to do the…
Timeout After careful consideration I have decided I needed time away from writing. Don't get me wrong, I feel the urge to write every day but I have realized that everything I am writing now is... shit. Well,…