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#5 How Not To Write A Novel: 200 Mistakes to Avoid At All Costs If You Ever...
Happy Monday morning and welcome to my countdown of My Top 5 How To Write Books Books. A note before we begin: As I outlined in my previous post I have spent the last decade reading books about how to...
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#4: Save the Cat by Blake Snyder
Yesterday I began my countdown of My Top 5 How To Write Books Books with How Not To Write A Novel: 200 Common Mistakes to Avoid At All Costs If You Ever Want to Get Published by Sandra Newman and...
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#3: The Maeve Binchy Writers’ Club
If you’ve just joined us, I’m counting down my Top 5 How To Write Books Books that I’ve whittled down after almost a decade of reading every book about writing books I could find but not actually...
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#2: The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers by Betsy Lerner
This week I’m counting down my Top 5 How To Write Books Books, based on a decade’s worth of reading every title in the genre I could get my hands on and using this as a method for getting absolutely...
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My #1 How To Write Books Book: Wannabe a Writer? by Jane Wenham-Jones
So all week I’ve been counting down my personal Top 5 How To Write Books Books, picked from a sea of such titles (also known as the Reference section of Waterstones Patrick Street) and combed for...
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Happy Birthday Sheelagh, OR, How I Accidentally Wrote a Whole Book
My best friend, Sheelagh, lives in New Zealand. She moved there in January 2009 and therefore hasn’t been around for my transformation from miserable, much-abused receptionist who only talks about...
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What I Thought Of… HOW I BECAME A FAMOUS NOVELIST by Steve Hely
Oh, how I do love me a bit of satire, and how I love it even more when the target is a part of the world I’m somewhat acquainted with. Therefore I was, admittedly, pre-disposed to liking How I Became a...
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Holiday Replay | Wannabe a Writer? by Jane Wenham-Jones
(I am currently on holiday and so I am replaying some posts. This one originally appeared in February 2010.) So all week I’ve been counting down my personal Top 5 How To Write Books Books, picked from...
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Keeping Track of Your Plot: How To Make A Novel “Bible”
After my NaNoWriMo Survival Kit post on Friday, a few of you told me how much you liked my Novel Bible idea (also known as The Only Possible Way I Can Keep Track of The Needlessly Complicated Plots I...
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So You Want To Write a Novel…
This hilarious video stars an aspiring writer who having quit his job, bought a new laptop and completed one page of his “fiction novel” is now hell bent on making every mistake in the How Not To Get...
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How Many Drafts Did You Do Of Your Book?
“How many drafts did you do of your book?” In between getting a book deal and being able to tell people I got a book deal, I went to an event at Dun Laoghaire’s Mountains to Sea festival where an...
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What Could Happen If You Worked As Hard As You Possibly Could?
Fact: I’ve never worked as hard in my entire life as I did last year. (Because I’m a student, I now think in academic years, so I mean the period between September 2014 and the end of May.) Here’s...
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Writers and Workshops
The very first writing workshop I ever attended turned me off them for life (I thought at the time). Fifteen years ago I spent three whole weeks* as a Lancaster University undergrad, taking Creative...
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Setting Yourself a Writing Deadline
Welcome to the Distress Signals Blogging Bonanza! What’s that, you’re wondering? Well, you can either go and read this post or read the next sentence. In a nutshell: Distress Signals is out in...
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Sunday Morning Coffee Reads
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Writing Goals: Should We All Just Shut The Hell Up?
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My Top 11 ‘How To Write Books’ Books
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How Do You Know When Editorial Feedback is ‘Right’?
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Listen: A Truckload of Good Sense About Writing
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How Do You Write A Book?
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