Helping fictional worlds grow, one sentence at a time
It’s a Kind of Magic is an ongoing blog series about how to create a realistic magic system for your fantasy novel. This first article asks the question: where does magic come from?
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From You-Know-Who to Mrs Coulter and her golden monkey, all great Middle Grade villains share traits that make them memorable. Here are 5 of them.
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There are many myths about bisexuality, which can cause misrepresentation in books and other media. To combat this, today’s ‘Writing Right’ blog is all about How to Write Bisexual Characters.
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Hemingway once said “…a writer should create living people, not characters.” Use the “3 Pillars of Writing Great Characters” method to do just that!
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Writing can mean long hours alone, talking only to your characters. Yet, to write truly great fiction, writers should go outside. Here’s why.
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What makes for a compelling Middle Grade hero? What characteristics do Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl, Percy Jackson, Lyra Belacqua and Bilbo Baggins have in common?
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Developmental editing is also known as ‘Structural’ or ‘Substantive’ editing. It is about finding out what works, what does and – most importantly – why.
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Acres of Ink offers a free sample edit up to 3,000 words. All genres and manuscripts types are welcome.
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It’s a Kind of Magic is an ongoing blog series about how to create a realistic magic system for your fantasy novel. This first article asks the question: where does magic come from?
Read More
From You-Know-Who to Mrs Coulter and her golden monkey, all great Middle Grade villains share traits that make them memorable. Here are 5 of them.
Read More
There are many myths about bisexuality, which can cause misrepresentation in books and other media. To combat this, today’s ‘Writing Right’ blog is all about How to Write Bisexual Characters.
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Hemingway once said “…a writer should create living people, not characters.” Use the “3 Pillars of Writing Great Characters” method to do just that!
Read More
Writing can mean long hours alone, talking only to your characters. Yet, to write truly great fiction, writers should go outside. Here’s why.
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What makes for a compelling Middle Grade hero? What characteristics do Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl, Percy Jackson, Lyra Belacqua and Bilbo Baggins have in common?
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Acres of Ink is a book editing and proofreading service that helps ‘fictional worlds grow, one sentence at a time’. In other words, Kim takes the seeds of your novel / first draft and helps it grow and bloom into polished manuscript.
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