Category Archives: Fiction Writing Tips

Can you find someone to help you with your writing? Absolutely. Go on the internet and find out if there are writers’ groups meeting in your location, or online groups that fit your needs. Ask at your local public library. https://writerssa.org.au/ is the leading writers’ group in South Australia. For Queensland, check out https://queenslandwriters.org.au/ WhereverContinue reading “Julia on Writing Fiction #2”

The world you create through your writing – its setting, characters, storyline, atmosphere and the rest – is as fragile as a soap bubble. As long as your reader believes in your world, and cares about the characters and the outcome of their journey, your reader is likely to stick with you. Of course, yourContinue reading “Narrative Voice”

Here are a couple of central ideas from some of the recommended books on creative writing. A hero is not Spider-Man or the fireman who saves a child, or your favorite football player. A hero, in storytelling, is the story’s central character, who goes on a real life – or mental, or spiritual – journey,Continue reading “Writing fiction – Heroes and Characters”

First a word on writers and authors. A writer is someone who writes—novels, plays, poems, short stories, or a blog. J K Rowling is a writer. She is the author of the ‘Harry Potter’ books. William Shakespeare was a writer. He is the author of many plays and poems. So you’re not an author. You’reContinue reading “Julia on Writing Fiction #1”