Monthly Archives: May 2019

Looking for Character Diversity in Fiction

It isn’t hard.  Take a trip on a tube or a train.  Open your eyes.  If you really start to look at people and see beyond their façade, you begin to realise just how weird and wonderful they are.  Sometimes … Continue reading

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Finding your main character’s voice

It’s taken me all the way to chapter 12 to find my main character’s voice.  And now that I’ve found it, it’s funny and clever and brilliant.  Scenes are rolling from my fingers.  I’m writing twice as much each session.  … Continue reading

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