by Kara Copple | Nov 14, 2023 | General Fiction
New ideas are great. They’re certainly better than no ideas at all. But if you get new ideas while writing, AFTER you’ve plotted and written a lot of your novel, they can be disruptive and frustrating. I’m a mix when it comes to plotting. Sometimes I’ll plot...
by Kara Copple | Apr 4, 2020 | General Fiction
So you want to write a novel? Welcome to hell. Not really, writing a novel can be a lot of fun but it is far from easy. If it was easy, all those people who say everyone has a novel in them would have written one by now. It’s hard to know where to start, but that’s...
by Kara Copple | Mar 23, 2020 | General Fiction
Where do I even begin? The past couple of weeks have been pretty awful for a lot of people for multiple reasons. This virus is unlike anything many of us have ever seen and it has affected us in different ways. I’m writing a post about the mental health effects...
by Kara Copple | Feb 25, 2020 | General Fiction
If you’re a fiction writer and keep hearing people like me say GET A BLOG for god sake, then you might be taken aback and stuck. What the hell do you blog about? As an unpublished author no less. The good thing is you don’t have to wait until you’re published. In...
by Kara Copple | Jan 21, 2020 | General Fiction
New to the writing world or new to putting yourself out there? It’s a difficult thing to do, whether you would call yourself a shy person or not. Let’s face it, many of us writers are pretty shy. One way people try to minimise this fear of self-promotion is to...
by Kara Copple | Jan 1, 2020 | General Fiction
Christmas and New Year are over and it’s time to get back to normality for many of us. Oh god. I don’t usually set New Year’s resolutions because I know what I’m like and I never stick with them. Plus I’m usually stuck in some kind of chocolate haze at the end...
