I’m facing a writing roadblock while trying to document several significant events in my manuscript. It’s a challenge to convey routine life while including essential plot points. My plan involves expanding current chapters and strategically mentioning key events to maintain the story's flow.
A Reddit user with 25 years of writing experience shares their struggles and mental health challenges due to a perceived lack of success. This is my response, questioning the user's goals and definitions of success, suggesting self-publishing or sharing work online for feedback. And I reflect on my writing journey, emphasizing personal fulfillment over commercial success, and encouraging the user to define success on their terms.
I've been away on a family trip to visit my son at university in South Wales. Despite this managed to publish three chapters of "A Healing Love" on Ream & complete chapter 23. The manuscript now surpasses 100,000 words.
Writing teenage characters involves balancing realism with readability. It's a challenge making teenage dialogue and actions believable yet engaging. Does my character, Paul, in the Paul Robertson Saga, navigate this delicate balance. Paul’s narrative, told from the future, allows for a more mature reflection on his teenage years, blending youthful…
You can read the first four unedited chapters of "A Healing Love" on Ream Stories. As I progress toward the 30-chapter mark, subscribers will get early access to new chapters twice a week, possibly more. Sign up as a Postgraduate Student for $5/month to enjoy these exclusive updates, along with…
Finishing a book is like running the London Marathon, using an Excel calendar to track events in the Westmouthshire universe. The timeline includes color-coded blocks for novels, novellas, and short stories from 2007 to 2014. This planning helps coordinate story details and timelines, offering a rough framework for my latest…
Today, I'm launching early access chapters of "A Healing Love," the fourth book in the Paul Robertson Saga, for top-tier members on my Ream Stories page. Unlike my usual practice of releasing polished and edited stories, these chapters are unfinished and subject to change. This approach aims to gather feedback…
When I was uploading my work to my Ream Stories page, I noticed there was a question that no other site has asked before when uploading work. “Was Generative AI used to write this story?” It sparked a question in my head—Is “using” AI cheating? And the answer to myself…
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