The creative writing blog

Gina Sorell

Bestselling author and professional namer Gina Sorell shares 5 tips on finding the best names for your characters.

The Novelry

Lucy Clarke, the bestselling author of destination thrillers and recent TV adaptations The Castaways and No Escape, shares how she writes her settings, overcomes challenges, and makes readers care about her characters.

Ella McLeod

To help you start writing, The Novelry writing coach and bestselling YA author Ella McLeod provides a variety of fantasy writing prompts.

Kate Riordan

New notebooks, leaving the house and a piece of cake: how to get writing a new book with 9 tricks from bestselling author Kate Riordan.

Elsa Doig

The Novelry shares five writing tips from our live class with the bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus.

Alice Kuipers

The Novelry writing coaches with ADHD and dyslexia share their top tips for neurodivergent writers seeking to stay calm and consistent when working on a novel.

The Novelry

Querying agents? Find out what agents at Trellis Literary Management are looking for in their manuscript wishlists right now.

Kate Weinberg

Do we have to like our main characters in order to root for them? The Novelry graduate Kate Weinberg explores writing unlikeable characters and messy narrators.

Bea Fitzgerald

Award-winning author Bea Fitzgerald shares five ways to keep the words coming when you’re writing a novel.

Lizzy Goudsmit Kay

Ten editors from Big Five publishers share the ‘writing icks’ you should avoid right now in your writing, from characters with little purpose to bad sex scenes.

Sadé Omeje

What makes a literary memoir a bestseller? The Novelry editor Sadé Omeje, formerly at HarperCollins, shares five hallmarks of a bestselling literary memoir or narrative non-fiction.

Hannah Kaner

Hannah Kaner, the internationally bestselling author of Godkiller and Sunbringer, shares her tenets for writing resilience: how to keep going even if your first book doesn’t get published.