Angie Halliwell

Howdy, partners! What have you guys been up to this week? Maybe you have been juggling the house, kids and work. Perhaps you have had meetings or appointments. You may have spent time on your latest story. When I’m out and about, I often look at the others around me and wonder what their lives are like, what are they thinking about and what challenges do they have that I could never know from just glancing at their faces. However, if you were writing from a third person omniscient viewpoint,...

This particular part of writing can trip quite a few people up, and they don’t even realise. They get so absorbed in telling the story that they forget to do so through the eyes of the perspective they are writing from. We sometimes add information that the narrator couldn’t possibly know. Or maybe we become a little clinical and forget to incorporate their emotion or personality, so it comes across as a news report rather than a lived event. The most important thing to do when writing your...

Welcome to another blog, and if you were lucky, maybe you have had a bit of blue sky and sunshine. As we are well and truly in the season of spring now, the weather is being much kinder and making us feel a little lighter. That shot of vitamin D from the sun certainly lifts our spirits and gives us much-needed motivation and energy for the day. The weather, including the seasons, can be a useful thing to think about when creating a specific atmosphere and demonstrating the current mood. This...