Character development: writing characters over time

MANY years ago, Jess read a line in a novel that stayed with her. According to that book, everyone is triggered by the handwriting of one particular person, and this handwriting, throughout their life

Rewiting your first draft might seem daunting, but, says James McCreet, it’s where you have the chance to really make your writing shine So you’ve finished the first draft. The story lies ‘finished’ b

Clearing her late mother’s house, Milla Reed from Banbury, Oxfordshire, couldn’t believe what she uncovered – or the emotional journey she was about to go on

Middle-grade protagonists are usually aged between 11 and 13 years old – an age when they are testing their limits, pushing their boundaries and learning about independence. In many middle-grade novel

…and they all lived happily ever after? It’s such a great feeling, isn’t it, when we are able to type The End after the last sentence of even the very first draft of a novel? We’ll start to hope that

T hey say everyone has a book inside them. (If you’re drawn to quests or escapades you may have a whole shelf ’s worth.) But experiencing real-life events is one thing; turning that into unputdownable