by Jane Maree | 17 August 2018 | Writing |
Disclaimer: this is a satirical post meant to amuse, not to instruct. You have been warned. 😉 Having realistic characters is a huge step toward having a great book. The readers will have someone to relate to and to cheer for. Some characters take a lot of time to...
by Jane Maree | 10 August 2018 | Writing |
Editing other peoples’ manuscripts is really fun. I love helping them out. I love reading their stories. I love suggesting ways to make the story better and greater and more amazing than ever. When it comes to editing my own books…it’s a whole lot...
by Jane Maree | 3 August 2018 | Books, Writing |
It’s been a while since I’ve done a ramble-about-books post aside from reivews and launches, so when some suggested I post about fictional friendships I thought it was the perfect opportunity. Obviously, I could’ve done a post about why friendships...
by Jane Maree | 27 July 2018 | Books, Writing |
Despite it being a Camp NaNoWriMo month—and thus having me busy writing the first draft of a new novel—I’ve been in a bit of a short story mood recently. New characters appearing and bouncing around inside my head until I grant them a short scene, old characters...
by Jane Maree | 13 July 2018 | Life, Writing |
I’ve only got a fairly short post today, but I’m going to point it all on Camp NaNo. (Because I need a scapegoat and that is as good as I can get. 😛 ) July is almost halfway done, and the writing has been all happening like usual. I feel like I...
by Jane Maree | 29 June 2018 | Life, Writing |
If you’ve hung around here for very long, you’ll probably have put two and two together and worked out that I can’t do maths. What can I say? I’m a writer, not an engineer. You also might’ve put four and four together and realised that...
by Jane Maree | 22 June 2018 | Writing |
Considering the writing craft is a lot about silently sitting in a cosy corner and transferring your brain onto a page, there’s a lot of terms and confusing jargon about Voice. Author voice, character voice, tiny-little-grammar-Nazi-on-your-shoulder voice....
by Jane Maree | 15 June 2018 | Life, Writing |
One of the most satisfying moments about writing a novel, is that blissful moment when you type “The End” on the last page of a manuscript. The moment after typing that is, of course, the moment when you realise that editing is a thing. BUT for one....
by Jane Maree | 8 June 2018 | Writing |
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed” —Ernest Hemingway  Writing a book can sound very complicated and time consuming, but it’s not as confusing as everyone makes out. I mean, obviously there’s the...
by Jane Maree | 18 May 2018 | Writing |
Writers, as with all craftsmen/women, are constantly growing in their craft. We work on it every week, every month, every year, and as time goes on we learn how to make our stories better, stronger, deeper. With that quality development, it’s very easy to look...
