Tag Archives: Nail Your Novel

Four great books on ‘How to write a book’

6

Posted on by

There’s no shortage of people who want to help writers. Googling ‘how to write a book’ produces over 46 million results. Change the term search to the slightly more cynical ‘so you want to write a book?’ gets you close to 3 million results. Try searching Amazon with ‘how to write a book’ and you have almost 10,000 book covers shouting (you can almost hear some of them) written by people who promise you’ll learn everything you need to know in 30 days. And it’ll… Continue reading →

Writer unblocked: 5 fun ways to get unstuck

6

Posted on by

I haven’t been able to do much hard-core writing lately, and wondered why I was having so much trouble getting started on my newest project. Am I too distracted with book promotion? Life? Fear of the unknown? Probably all of the above. Or is it the dreaded writer’s block? I’ve got a great cast of characters and a workable plot I started last year during NaNoWriMo. But who wants a  ’workable’ story? I certainly don’t want to spend the next year or two on a… Continue reading →

Switch to our mobile site