Latest Articles
About once a month we publish a blog post on the website on some aspect of writing. Five keys points to consider when thinking, writing and editing stories.
How We Edit As Co-authors
Editing is an essential writing tool.
August 2022
July 2022
How We Write Together As Co-authors
Your Content Goes Here Your Content Goes Here Meeting readers and talking to them has been a real joy for us these past few months since What Lies Between [...]
April 2022
5 Things We’ve Found Out About Marketing
After publication the work doesn’t stop. In this blog we look at marketing your novel and five things we’ve learnt along the way.
January 2022
Five Things about the Characters in What Lies Between Them
People often see aspects of themselves reflected in novels, relating to something in the characters, or their lives. In this blog we discuss how we created the main characters in our debut novel What Lies Between Them published by Dixi Books.
October 2021
Five Strange Things
As life returns to some sense of normality J. L. Harland looks at ways to use these experiences to feed back into your writing.
August 2021
Dreaming the Story
J. L. Harland discuss what can go wrong when the plotting or planning of stories goes off-piste and how important discussion is when co-authoring. Five rules of working with a co-author using photographs and backstory for characters, detailing the plot, writing down details and checking any misconceptions.
June 2021
Co-authoring. Is it for you?
Five points about co-authoring from J. L. Harland looking at problems that could arise such as ego, doubling time taken on projects, possible confusion, disagreements and dealing with life problems.
Co-authoring. Something to Consider?
Five points about co-authoring from J. L. Harland looking at ideas, halving workload, sharing highs and lows, finding your tribe, fun and laughter.
May 2021
Life and Complications
Five points about publishing from J. L. Harland looking at genre, editing, self-publishing, marketing and keeping your feet on the ground.
March 2021
What’s in a Name?
Some things to think about when giving names to your characters.