Serious about starting your novel? Here are three things that will immediately make your writing better.

Serious about starting your novel? Here are three things that will immediately make your writing better.

If you're serious about this writing thingy, you'll want to save yourself time and be aware of any writing issues before they even arise. Here are three things that you'll need to know about before you get too many pages into your book.

Writing tip: Word repetition makes you look amateur. Here’s what to do about it.

Writing tip: Word repetition makes you look amateur. Here’s what to do about it.

There are lots of ordinary words that we have to repeat as we write. They're building blocks, if you like, creating vehicles that carry along the more interesting words and phrases.

But repeating unique words, phrases or descriptions several times in a paragraph, or a page, or even a chapter, makes your writing seem stale.