Whenever you are submitting material in order to get a bit of freelance work, it is important that you tailor your submissions to the fit the job at hand. If you are trying to secure some work for a relatively high brow outfit, then it is no good submitting commercial writing or casual pieces of [...]
Nothing is more certain to put an agent or editor off your work than basic errors. You should make sure that your work is absolutely devoid of simple grammatical and spelling mistakes before you send it for assessment. This means proofreading. You should only proofread when you are feeling alert otherwise you are wasting your [...]
There is nothing quite like writing a novel when it comes to practising your style. Even if you finish a novel which does not get taken up by a publisher, the mere act of completing it will give you confidence to go on writing. It is not uncommon for writers to begin their second novel [...]
Perhaps the most winning attribute a budding novelist can have is determination. It takes dogged persistence to get through those difficult passages that seem to present such impassable barriers when you are at different stages in your novel. However, the persistence required to finish the novel itself is not where it stops. You need to [...]
It may seem like a fairly obvious statement to make, but if you want to progress as a writer then you have read as much as possible. If you can read a novel a week then you will expose yourself to a huge variety of different styles and ideas. The notion behind this is not [...]
