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Monday 16 March 2009

Writing aids



No Matter how good you are at writing you always need a little help. I have a few things that aid my writing the first being books. At the moment I'm currently reading Will write for shoes and English grammar workbook for dummies. I've also bought but not got round to reading yet Grammatically correct, See Jane write, A novel in a year, and Wannabe a writer?.
The second thing that aids my writing is the Internet. There are so many useful sites to help writers.
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/comma-splice.aspx
http://www.chicklitclub.com/index.html
http://www.ivillage.co.uk/newspol/readerswriters/writers/articles/0,10233,532364_536842,00.html
http://www.chicklit.co.uk/articles/five_tips_to_writing_a_fantasy_novel.asp
http://chick-lit.suite101.com/article.cfm/bad_chick_lit_cliches
http://www.scribblepad.co.uk/WritingANovelCategory.html


Other things I find useful are character charts. I find writing in detail about a character helps to develop them in your book.
I also carry round a note book to jot down any ideas or thoughts i have that i could include in my book or a future book. As i said it's amazing what you can hear when your out and about in shops etc. You can't always remember everything so jotting them down as you think of them or hear them is a great help.

I know I keep banging on about it but the biggest aid I've had so far is being a part of authonomy. All the authors on there are so kind and helpful you really can learn a lot about writing as well as getting to read lots of great books. Check it out on my list of links.

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