The Power of Ideas
I’m trying something right now which may or may not be of use to anyone trying to put a story together. Basically and briefly, I’m...
Why Is It So?
There used to be a short segment on Australian television in the 1960s and 70s called ‘Why Is It So?’ It featured an eccentric scientist,...
Learn what a story really is...
Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers • the magnetic power that attracts readers...
The Big Myth of Traditional Publishing
I recently had some correspondence with a wannabe writer who was discouraged, to say the least, by some feedback that he’d received from...
6 Tips to Finding Beta Readers Who Are Also Writers
Where do your fellow writers hang out? It’s much easier these days to establish communication with other writers. I remember back in the...
4 Qualities of Beta Readers
Each individual author probably needs a particular kind of beta reader, or more than one. In broad terms, you probably need at least one...
Learn what a story really is...
Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers • the magnetic power that attracts readers...
The Beauty of Beta Readers
So you’ve written a book and you want to get it published. Chances are, if you are like 90% of writers, no one has read your finished...
