Angeline explains how to get your dialogue working hard for you and your story. She shares her top tips for writing believable and useful dialogue. And then, she tackles those pesky speech tags, and those even peskier adverbs. Listen on your favourite platform HERE. Resources The Emotion Thesaurus Music credit:Rogue One by Serge Narcissoff | https://soundcloud.com/sergenarcissoffMusic [...]
In honour of Mental Health Month and World Mental Health Day, we open up about our own mental health struggles, and how writing has helped us. We also discuss the issues of writing 'the other'; particularly characters with mental health issues and paranormal abilities, and how to encompass them in your worldbuilding. We get pretty [...]
In today's episode, Holly talks about the creation of her writing sandbox; creating the history, mythology and cultures of her dark, urban fantasy world in which all of her books to date are set. Listen on your favourite platform here. Holly's books are predominantly set in the fictional city of Caerton. In today's episode, she [...]
Indie Fire is a brand new, UK-based writers conference that we are organising. It is dedicated to the world of independent publishing, focusing on the fantasy, science-fiction, and horror genres. Indie Fire will be happening on Saturday 30th May 2020 at The Kirkgate Centre, Shipley, West Yorkshire. The venue is a community centre with a great [...]
Over the years, I've done a lot of waiting around for opportunities to come my way. Some I've jumped on, some I've dithered too long over, others have passed me by completely. But, you can't always sit back and wait for opportunity to come knocking. Because it very rarely does. And, if you find yourself [...]
Happy International Podcast Day! We're celebrating with an episode about all the great things we've learnt, and a tribute to all the great podcasts we listen to. Hear about how the lessons we've learnt via podcasts, online courses, and from our peers have transformed our mindsets, our writing, and our businesses. Angeline reveals her big [...]
Today it's time for Angeline's first solo episode, and I'm talking about building your author platform. It's not just a simple case of getting yourself online, and I discuss all the issues around tackling imposter syndrome, and mindset, as well as delving into what you should be doing to build your platform. Hear about how [...]
In today's episode, we're going back to school, and talking about building education and learning into your world. We discuss the different things you need to think about; from how education fits into your wider world, to the different kinds of education you could include. We chat about tropes, and the problems that can arise, [...]
Want to get more in-depth help with your worldbuilding? Want the chance for one-on-one help? Want to be a trailblazer, helping to forge the way for others to follow? Then, adventurer, read on... We are delighted to be introducing our latest project: Worldbuilding Quest: a worldbuilding course for writers. For this first enrolment, we’re looking [...]
In today's episode, Holly talks to author Sacha Black about her fiction and non-fiction books, her new podcast, Rebel Author and her worldbuilding highs and lows. Listen on your favourite platform here. Sacha Black is a bestselling and competition winning author, developmental editor and writing coach. She also has five obsessions; words, expensive shoes, conspiracy theories, [...]
