Five top tips for writing a book series

Five top tips for writing a book series

Last updated Sep 5, 2024 | Blog

There are a lot of good reasons to write a book series: it allows you to spend more time with the characters you’ve invested in, you can make repeated use of all the research you’ve done for your setting (something that historical fiction is particularly heavy on, of...
Free indirect discourse: what it is and why you should use it

Free indirect discourse: what it is and why you should use it

Last updated Sep 5, 2024 | Blog

Free indirect discourse is one of the most useful and effective tools available to those writing from a third person point of view. It sounds kind of fancy, but it’s actually quite a natural technique (you may have even used it without realising!). So what exactly is...
Four steps for writing romantic relationships that make sense

Four steps for writing romantic relationships that make sense

Last updated Sep 5, 2024 | Blog

Even if your story is not a historical romance, you may still want to incorporate a romantic subplot for that extra dose of spice and emotional depth. But you want to do it well. You’ve read your share of predictable, throwaway relationship subplots that left you...