by Sophie Pembroke | Mar 24, 2021 | Editing Your Work, Tools, Tips & Tricks, Writing Craft
Want to know how to take your novel from first draft to fabulous? Read on for my step-by-step guide to revising a novel. This month, I’m dwelling in the revisions cave, revising the murder mystery novel I wrote for Nanowrimo, last November. Taking a book from first...
by Sophie Pembroke | Mar 17, 2021 | Editing Your Work, Tools, Tips & Tricks, Writing Craft
Want to know how to take your novel from first draft to fabulous? Read on for my step-by-step guide to revising a novel. This month, I’m dwelling in the revisions cave, revising the murder mystery novel I wrote for Nanowrimo, last November. Taking a book from first...
by Sophie Pembroke | Mar 9, 2021 | Editing Your Work, Tools, Tips & Tricks, Writing Craft
Want to know how to take your novel from first draft to fabulous? Read on for my step-by-step guide to revising a novel. This month, I’m dwelling in the revisions cave, revising the murder mystery novel I wrote for Nanowrimo, last November. Taking a book from first...
by Sophie Pembroke | Aug 19, 2020 | Author Life, First Drafts, Tools, Tips & Tricks
Getting that last 500 words Some days, getting that last 500 words can feel like an impossible slog, and it’s just so darned tempting to give up and try again tomorrow. Except those 500 words will still be there, waiting to be written – along with all the other...
by Sophie Pembroke | Jul 8, 2020 | Tools, Tips & Tricks, Writing a Romance, Writing Craft
What is a trope, and why are they so powerful? Trope: (in a romantic novel) a plot, theme, device or character used so often that it has become a convention within the genre. In other words: a romantic trope is the thing readers buy the romance for! Tropes aren’t...
