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Mervyn Love - ArticlesMervyn Love is the webmaster of www.writersreign.co.uk offering a wealth of links, competitions, resources and more for the aspiring writer.
Use Time Transitions to Move Your Reader Smoothly Through Your StoryMost stories we write take place over a period of time. That time may be very short - even a few minutes; or long - over several years or generations or anywhere inbetween. But whatever it is, the reader needs to have a clear sense of how time is moving throughout the narrative. Your Readers Love to Read About Tension Between Your CharactersTension is inextricably bound up in the emotions of your characters, and by introducing tension you lead your readers into the same emotions, as they 'feel' for the characters in your story. Keep Those Pages Turning With a Good Dollop of SuspenseWhatever kind of book you are writing a dollop of suspense will do to your readers precisely what you've written the book for: so that they will read it and keep on reading it to the end! A Verb! a Verb! I'd Give My Kingdom for a Verb! Parts of Speech DemystifiedDear writers, we are gathered here today to bring together these Nine Parts of Speech into a holy matrix of well turned out sentences which, by the grace of God, no publisher or editor shall cast asunder. A bit hesitant about parts of speech? Don't know your verbs from your conjunctions? Read on... Publishers Love Well Turned Out Manuscripts. Here's How to Prepare YoursSend in a sloppy, grubby manuscript and your chances of rejection are greatly increased. Send in a smart, clean, tidy manuscript and the publishers offices will ring with the cry - "Hey, here's someone who knows how to do it properly! Break out the Champaign! Bring on the dancing girls!' But maybe not the latter if it's a Monday. Planning Your Novel SynopsisSome writers claim they can sit down with a good idea for a novel and bash away until it's finished. It takes an extraordinary mind to do that. Most of today's writers will tell you that they prepare a framework, a synopsis, from which to generate their 100,000 or so words. Here's a suggested system to achieve that. Minor Characters. are They Really Necessary?The vast majority of fiction writers write short stories, whether they write for their own pleasure, for the writing circle they belong to, a competition or whether they aim to get them published. The temptation to bring in lots of exciting characters can be irresistible. But are they necessary? How to Keep a Really Useful JournalAs a writer you may already keep a journal, or diary, and that's excellent. For those who don't as well as those who do I want to explore some of the exciting benefits of keeping one that you may not have realised. Your Interviewing Success Action PlanYou like people, you like talking, and you like getting out of the house. Great. You're practically an interviewer already! All you need now are these few handy tips and guidelines to get your first interview in the bag and off to a publisher. How to Pull Great Story Ideas Out of Thin AirThe muse has done a bunk, the creative juices have withered on the vine and to cap it all the cat has just poo'd on your last packet of A4. You feel as if all your ideas have scurried off like lemmings looking for the nearest cliff. But all is not lost. For one thing if you bin the top five sheets the rest are probably OK. For another if you try the tactic below, you could end up saying 'Ha! Who needs a muse?'
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