Tips
The development of your plot
Try to resist the urge to plan out your idea extensively by working out every eventuality before you start to draft…
Ross Raisin is an author of short stories and two novels, God’s Own Country and Waterline, which won or were shortlisted for a dozen awards. He was one of Granta Best of Young British Novelists 2013.
Tips
Try to resist the urge to plan out your idea extensively by working out every eventuality before you start to draft…
Exercises
Try this plot points exercise, that makes use of your knowledge of characters:
Think of a novel that you…
Tips
There is, of course, no rule that says you should never write dialogue that looks exactly like real speech. To do…
Exercises
Listen in to a real conversation that you are not involved in and note just how much extraneous detail there is,…
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