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Strictly, a literary trope is a rhetorical or figurative device, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect. Today, it’s also come to be used for describing commonly recurring literary and rhetorical devices and motifs in creative works. Right, now we’ve got the formal stuff out of the way, let’s look at how it […] 
Alison, peeved Ha! We all have pet peeves and I’m pretty sure we pass these on in our writing however carefully we try to view the world from each individual character’s point of view. Our own values, thoughts and emotional responses will seep through, so I must admit that mine probably do, although […] 
At the Triskele LitFest This post was updated in 2021. It’s generally accepted that it’s easier to market a series of novels than separate, stand-alone ones. It’s also more fun to write as you can introduce more entanglements and conflicts across several books. 😉 But if you already write a novel series you […] Conflict and emotion are two pillars of fiction writing whether in high-end literary fiction or the most melodramatic genre fiction. A story will often start by providing the main character with a conflict, be it professional or personal. Sometimes it’s the place where the initial event is set (weather, nighttime, urban, with unlit streets), a […] |
   
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