Writing a Mystery in your Story

Mysteries are some of the hardest things to keep in a narrative, the author must often walk a very fine tightrope. If the mystery is too complex, then it can lose the reader due to being incomprehensible. If the mystery is too simple, it is either going to be too easy to solve or not

Using Character Profiles: Making Your Characters into Real People

Characters are important to any different story, they are the main driving force of the story, they are the main thing that readers become invested in during a narrative. I am not saying anything revolutionary when I say that characters are important to a narrative, so why is it that they are so easy to

Camp NaNoWriMo 2021: Writing Every Day

Writing challenges, like Nanowrimo, can seem both daunting and exciting to take part in as a new and aspiring author. Camp Nanowrimo is the July version of November’s National Novel Writing Month, which this year I have decided to participate in, with a target of writing 30,000 words within a month. I would advise that

Writing About Your Own Experiences

So, a lot of the advice on writing in this blog is geared towards writing fiction, from advice on how to write a character profile, to world building for a fictional world, however this is not the only way to write. Obviously, there is a lot of writing out there based on personal experience, from

Queer Representation: Why it is Important!

I would firstly like to start this blog post with a little disclaimer. The content of this post is mainly based off my own experiences and is not meant to cover the experiences of queer readers as a whole. I also realise that the book choices and tone of this post is skewed towards mainly

Top Ten Wentworth Moments – Part 2

Following on from our previous blog post, this week we will be the second half of my top ten Wentworth moments. Last time we covered moments such as Kaz pushing Sonia off the roof and Bea’s final confrontation with Jacs. This time we will look at more moments that made viewers laugh, cry and smile

Top 10 Wentworth Moments – Part 1

Wentworth is a series I have written about before, it is a series that I fell in love with when I first saw it and has commanded my attention ever since. Now, looking towards the future, there is just ten more episodes left to be released, just the second half of season 8 and then

Prologues: Starting a Story Off Correctly!

A prologue is a section of a story, often which is slightly shorter than the average chapter within the book, which comes before all other chapters within the book. It should be noted that whilst the prologue is read before all other chapters, it does not have to take place chronologically before them, with some

Dreams and Storytelling: How to avoid your use of dreams becoming a nightmare!

Dreams have long been a staple of storytelling, and they can help to delve into the psyche of a character and see how they are feeling. Dreams can also allow for more surreal types of storytelling, with them not being bound by the reality that the main plot takes place in. However, the use of

Cliffhanger: Leave Your Readers Wanting More!

Cliffhangers are a tool that almost all writers use as a part of the structure of their stories, not only do they help to separate chapters and lead to higher stakes, but will also heighten reader interest in your story. Cliffhangers, no matter the scale, often present either a perilous situation for the protagonist, or