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Starting a story is always a challenge. You have to do a lot at once, but not too much. Don’t overwhelm the reader, don’t confuse, don’t info-dump, don’t send misleading signals, don’t lose the reader’s interest. Sometimes you can start in medias res. Get to the action fast. Open with a murder, or a… href="https://nailyournovel.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/the-quiet-beginn...
Rachael Wesley spent nearly a decade pouring her heart into teaching, until burnout forced her to rediscover her first love: writing. Her debut memoir Second Set Chances weaves together life-changing coincidences, the cost of living authentically and the shared community to be found in the fandom of a band called Phish. Second Set Chances encapsulates… href="https://nailyourn...
One of the projects I’ve worked on recently is a guide to book marketing by the Alliance of Independent Authors. It has been an eye-opener. I thought I knew the basics of book marketing – choose the right keywords in book listings, figure out your genre, find some recent books that are like yours and… href="https://nailyournovel.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/why-marketing-your-boo...
The 2025 Ursula K Le Guin Prize for Fiction is about to be awarded. It’s for works that are categorised as ‘imaginative fiction’ – they have elements of science fiction and fantasy, but also of literary. What does this look like? Everyone has their own description. Here’s mine: they bend reality, maybe slightly, maybe a… href="https://nailyournovel.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/th...
Soon it will be NaNoWriMo time! The official National Novel-Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) organisation closed earlier this year, but the writing world is still hard wired to Nano in November, come what may. (What’s NaNoWriMo? A worldwide event where the aim is to write a work of 50,000 words in just the 30 days of November.)… href="https://nailyournovel.wordpress.com/2025/10/12/p...
