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How to navigate the wastelands of Act 2.
What is the soggy middle, you cry? This is the approx. 50% of a novel commonly called Act 2.
Act 1 is a breeze to write – it’s all killer and no filler, laying the grounds for your story, with vital character and world building. It’s beat...
Ten things I learned from my first novel.
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- Don’t wait until you release a novel to build a mailing list. I didn’t start building my list until a month or so before I released my book. Having one is vital if you’re going to garner any preorde...
The 'Save the Cat' beatsheet
What, you may ask, is a beat sheet? Think of it like the bones of a house or the checkpoints breaking up a long road trip.
The one I used is called Save the Cat, but there are others such as the Hero’s Journey, Foolscap Method, Story Grid...
VHS Memoirs
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I reach out from an exquisite fog, and my surroundings swim into focus. A familiar smell registers, like a hit of weak cocaine. I know the place intimately, but my jumbled memory has fragmented. Pieces f...
What is a 'high-concept' premise?
For readers, writers, and movie-goers alike, the term high-concept is often misunderstood. When I first heard it, I assumed like many others it meant a hoity-toity highbrow arthouse film or a meandering literary novel, probably shortlisted...
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Author of Horror / Sci-fi/ Thriller/ Literary. Founder of Four Quarters, the U.K.'s first arcade bar brand. Lover of 80s & 90s games, music, movies & pop culture. Observer of dystopias. Debut novel, (Dystopian Thriller Mandate: THIRTEEN) out now!
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