Poems & Stories of Kindness
Poems and Stories of Kindness The Gift of Kindness The Music of the Heart Kindness Story Helpful Neighbour Kindness Bus Stop 1 Bus Stop 2 The Good Samaritan Good Neighbours Bank Card The Good Samaritan
Behind the Scenes with Leaps of Faith
Behind the Scenes with ‘Leaps of Faith’ The atmosphere was one of concentrated nervousness, strongly clamped down by the intention to perform well. In the wings and behind the scenes in the Merlin Theatre early on Thursday night, actors and writers were running through their lines, muttering in corners, holding their scripts to their chests […]
Maintaining Pace
What gets readers hooked? What keeps them reading? Your story needs something that grabs the imagination from the first page, so the reader is drawn in enough to turn the page — and to keep turning. Resist describing your setting in great detail on page one, tempting as it is. Readers want to get into […]
‘Show, Don’t Tell’
As writers, most of us have heard the advice: ‘Show, don’t tell.’ But what does it really mean, and how can we use this guidance to improve our storytelling? What is it? ‘Show, don’t tell’ is a technique that encourages writers to paint vivid pictures in their readers’ minds rather than simply telling them what’s […]
Create convincing characters
If you are reading this you will probably know what type of story you are going to write and who you are going to write it for. You have the idea, the category and the target audience all sorted and are ready to delight your readers with the twists and turns of the narrative. But […]
Lynn’s marketing tips
Booklinker: The first thing I found useful was ‘Booklinker’. This takes you straight to your page on Amazon. I wanted to make a QR code and put it on my book marks. I tried others but found this one easy to do. This is my booklink: mybook.to/twentyone Bookmarks: I hand them out to bookstores and […]