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For many novel writers, entering a competition can feel like an exciting but daunting step. Is your manuscript ready? What do judges look for? Could this really help you in your writing career or are you just wasting your time? In this guest post, Caroline Ambrose, founder and director of the Bath Novel Awards, shares…
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How to Succeed At NaNoWriMo
Just in case you don’t know what NaNoWriMo is, it’s an annual writing project that takes place every November, in which amateur writers (who knows, possibly some professional ones as...
The Five Major Story Elements
There are five major story elements which every successful story needs to incorporate to some degree. By having a firm grasp on what each of the five story elements are...
Creating Characters
There are many, many, books on creating decent characters, and we're going to try to summarise character creation in a few brief study notes, so please keep in mind the...
Advice for Choosing Meaningful and Memorable Names
The names of your characters matter a great deal. There are unusual names which are now so imprinted on particular characters that it seems impossible to separate the two, such...
Tips on Submitting Your Manuscript to Agents
So, you’ve finished your book. The hard part is over, right? Wrong. Now you have to convince some hard-nosed literary agent that your novel is going to be the next...
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