Writing Tips from Eloisa James
Who is Eloisa James ? Quite frankly I didn’t know who she was until I read my trusty February issue of Writing Magazine. She is a university professor turned historical romance novelist. With 3.5million books in circulation and several best sellers up her sleeve, I definitely deem her writing advice worthy of heeding. So What Does Eloisa James Say About Making a Book Publishable? Stop planning too much and just write, because you can edit ten pages of writing but you can’t edit anything if you have none. That’s great – I never was the kind of writer that planned things out anyway. Too much planning can lead to a book without originality of freedom. She finds that allowing herself to write bad fiction helps her to do this. By continuing to write, something interesting might arise which you would never have discovered if you had cut yourself off in the first place. I love this piece of advice – it gives me a good excuse to write crappy short stories because I never know whe...