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    How to Write A Novel, Step 5: Coming to Know Your Characters
    Cate
    • Aug 7, 2015
    • 4 min

    How to Write A Novel, Step 5: Coming to Know Your Characters

    I’m assuming that by the time you have sorted out all that planning (see Step 4...), you will already be quite conversant with your characters. If you are like me, they will be pretty much like real people, probably already interfering with the planning process as they put their two bob’s worth in. Or twenty cents’ worth, if you are post decimalisation, or, allowing for inflation, possibly twenty dollar’s worth (if you are reading in a country other than Australia, feel free
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    How To Write A Novel: Step 3, Getting Words on the Page
    Cate
    • Mar 21, 2015
    • 5 min

    How To Write A Novel: Step 3, Getting Words on the Page

    Believe it or not, getting words on the page can be daunting for anyone, even seasoned writers and best sellers. Having a firm idea for your story is only the start. Sitting down every day and knowing what you want to write is both a habit and a skill, and some days it will seem easier than others. The first thing to realise is that you have to commit to forming a writing habit. There are different ways to approach this. Word Count Some writers have a word count that they str
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    Happy New Year 2015, or, Tea Anybody?
    Cate
    • Jan 3, 2015
    • 5 min

    Happy New Year 2015, or, Tea Anybody?

    Happy New Year! only a couple of days late... ...I’ve been looking around the web for the last week or so and finding a lot of posts about new year’s resolutions, setting goals, making plans, changing my life in 5 simple steps, and just plain taking time to look back over the last year to see what worked for me, and doing it again. A couple of things occurred to me. One was, why for the New Year? Every day is a new day, and every day is a great day to take stock and think ab
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