5 constructive things to do to kill your writers block

Gah!   Not another finger-twiddling, brow rubbing moment when you just can’t come up with the next awesome idea you need!   Try these excercises to get your cogs a-turning!

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Treason - Book Review (Why you don’t want to be a Human Newt)

The Book “Treason” by Orson Scott Card is awesome.   It was his second novel, I believe, which contains more by way of raw ideas than Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook.   One thing I notice about his writing style is how he loves to put his characters through hell…

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The importance of Sci Fi OR Fantasy.

If you are a writer of this kind of speculative fiction, you have a choice to make.   It might seem restrictive to class yourself as a “Sci Fi Author” or a “Fantasy Author”, but it has to be done - when you publish your first book, the book shops need to know which shelf to slot you in!

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I have a cunning plan…

You can have the best story ever floating around in your head, but with no structure it is more likely to come out as a tangled mess of ideas than an instant bestseller.   What you need is a plan!

Here is one method I use to plan my story writing…

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