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The Write Stuff – Writing Tips To Help You Complete Your Book. Tip #7 – If It Works, Work It!
Your creative process is yours alone. Don’t worry what others think about how you write. Do what works for you. and if you remain engaged and motivated, then keep doing it. Equallly, don’t be afraid to change, we all need to switch it up sometimes.
The Write Stuff – Writing Tips To Help You Complete Your Book. Tip #6 – Be a Research Engine
You’re creating an imaginary world for your audience, but if it’s riddled with factual errors or comical ambiguousness then, just like reality glitching in The Matrix, the illusion will be shattered. This means you need to understand your world intimately and that means research, research, research.
The Write Stuff – Writing Tips To Help You Complete Your Book. Tip #5 – Let It Go!
ometimes we create something that we love. In a rewrite that perfect thing just doesn’t fit anymore and artificial attempts to keep it in can affect the work as a whole. Don’t force it. Be brave. Be ruthless. Let it go.
The Write Stuff – Writing Tips To Help You Complete Your Book. Tip #4 – Writing Is Rewriting!
An author mentor of mine was fond of saying “the secret to writing is rewriting” and as a beginner it’s probably the best advice I ever got. Rather than springing out perfect the first time, every piece of writing, or every good piece, was the result of many, many, many, many revisions.
BEHIND THE MYTHIC - THE SECRETS BEHIND THE BOOKS!
Big Bear – Personality and Background
THE MYTHIC SERIES is a story about stories and Big Bear the character was the logical place to drop a bunch cat-related myths—everything from Bast to Dick Whittington and Puss in Boots to having multiple lives. Big Bear the character is also based on Big Bear the real cat so, equally, what’s on the page is my interpretation of my beautiful boy’s larger than either-real-or-fictitious life personality.
Selene Charbon – Personality and Background
Mean girl. Teen girl. Rich girl. Bitch girl. Selene Charbon is a classic bully type. So what’s more fun than putting a bully through the wringer? Nothing!
Sweet City – The Jailers
Sweet City is full of horrors, but which is the most terrifying? The monstrous Gingerbread Men? The creepy Sorting Mat? Matron Goose, who oversees the City with a firm wing? Or the Sugar Plum Airy that brings death to those it lands upon?
Selene Charbon – Name and Appearance
In my initial plan for the series, Lucy was to be flanked by two very different contemporaries, something you can see threaded through their names. Amber Kim’s name radiates light, Lucia Knight’s balances light with dark, and Selene Charbon’s is shrouded in darkness.
THE MYTHIC SERIES
