Tips for writers

9 awesome reminders about your imagination

7 dos and don’ts about genre

Are chapter titles divine inspiration or a reader distraction?

5 writing gifts to give characters in your book

8 must-dos: creating an unforgettable character in fiction

Bore the reader, kill the book

Create a killer character in fiction and assassinate the stereotype

So you think you can write?

Make a connection with your reader within the first 10 pages

How to wow a literary agent and polish the submission process

Map out the landscape of the first 10 pages

Struggling to write the first 10 pages?

The one-sentence pitch

Look around you, it’s beautiful. Inspiration for the first 10 pages

We’d think twice about our first 10 pages if we had to use a manual typewriter. Tipp-Ex, anyone?

How would your first 10 pages sound if you had to read them out loud?

Keep writing, don’t stop, keep writing, get to the top, keep writing

Are you excited enough to write a book?

If you haven’t broken out in sweat over your opening sentence then maybe it’s time to rethink those all-important first words