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Know Your Character(s) This is not as straightforward as it sounds. On the surface it’s easy; is it a man or a woman? Are they black or white? Alien or human? Primitive or sophisticated? These are the easy questions you tend to know the answers to from the outset but now you have to fit them into the world you have created. Now, given the... [Read more of this article]

Know Your World I struggled with how to get started writing my first novel for a long time (okay I’m still struggling but that’s a different story) but during the process of writing and stalling, writing and stalling I started to read-up on exactly how the process was supposed to work and, from there, started to figure out what I was doing... [Read more of this article]