5 Ideas On What To Blog About as a Fiction Writer

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 As an unpublished author no less.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...

New Year’s Resolutions for Fiction Writers

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...

Should You Use Multi POV in Your Fantasy Novel?

Multi-POV, or multiple point of view storytelling has been around for a long time and a lot of people either love it or hate it. It’s been particularly popular since A Song of Ice and Fire and it seems pretty common in the fantasy genre as a whole. But should you go...

The Allure of Fiction – Why Do We Write It?

If you’re a fiction writer yourself, you’ve no doubt been questioned about it. Why do you have your head in the clouds? Why are you daydreaming all the time?  If you write something like fantasy fiction, prepare for these questions to become a bit ruder: Why are...

How to Write Fiction When Writing is Your Day Job

Writing, writing and writing – this is my life. Being a full-time writer is a dream really. I never thought I’d actually get paid to do it. It’s also great to think of all those people who told me that studying writing or just being interested in it...