Reviewing: How to Outline Commercial Fiction with the Story Engines Blueprint
By Sian Toop In this episode, the Education Lead at Plottr, Troy Lambert, interviews bestselling fantasy author and story coach Joseph Nassise about Story Engines. Created by Nassise, Story Engines is ‘an intuitive four-act plot structure for writing commercial...
Reviewing Plotting for Pantsers: Outlining as You Go with Zoey Indiana
In this episode of Plotting for Pantsers, Troy Lambert talks to self-published dark fantasy romance author Zoey Indiana about ‘discovery writing’ or ‘post plotting’, defined by Zoey as “letting my characters run around and drive me crazy for a couple of chapters and...
The Impact of AI-Technology for Writers
By Sian Toop. Artificial Intelligence or AI, is part of our every day lives. From Siri on our phones or Alexa in our homes – AI is slowly transforming our lives. But the use of AI-technology has recently made the headlines in the writing world for all the wrong...
5 Healthy Habits of Successful Authors
By Sian Toop There is some debate between scientists on how long it really takes to form a new habit, with answers varying between 18 to 254 days. Yet, the new year is a great time to take stock of what we want to achieve, and inevitably, if we set a goal, it means...
New Year, New Author: Setting Writing Goals for 2024
By Sian Toop As much as we all love writing, it doesn’t always come easy. But setting achievable writing goals can really help you to focus and stop you from staring at a blank page, at a loss of where to begin. By setting small writing goals, we break down the...
