Sticking to one Genre in Fiction

I don’t know about you, but most people seem to like it when an author fits into one category and you always know what you are going to get when you read one of their books. The cheif excetption to this rule would be Stephen King who has jumped genres many times and in most …

Should you outline you Novel or just wing it?

Back in the dark ages when I first started taking writing semi-seriously, I would certainly have considered myself a ‘Pantser’ when it came to writing a book. By this I mean someone who wrote by the seat of my pants with no real idea what was going to be in the book apart from how …

How much faster can you write with Dictation?

For the last couple of years (or much longer for some people) if you are a writer you will no doubt have heard about Dictation. You may have run out and spent a wad of cash on Dragon Dictate or some other software, realized it doesn’t work perfectly straight out of the box and gave …

Who Cares About Passive Voice?

Anyone who writes will most likely be familiar with Passive Voice. It is a form of writing often frowned upon by critics and writers who always make the case for Active Voice over Passive Voice. The difference between the two can seem minimal when only one sentence of each is used as an example: Alice …

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