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This is the first post in the Lessons From The Media series. This features one of my all time favourite book and series: The Freja Peachtree Series  by Aussie (yay!) author Katrina Nannestad . It's a trilogy beginning with  The Girl, The Dog And The Writer In Rome , followed by Provence and Lucerne . It's an MG series, but I think people of all ages would enjoy it. It's heartwarming, easy to read and (#Confession) made me feel like blubbering in some parts. Seriously, you need to go buy this book right now and read it. There will be some spoilers in here. What It Does Right  Everything. Go read it now. The end. Just kidding. (Kinda.) Something that really impressed me was how Nannestad wrote a fantastic dynamic series. There were cliffhangers (which annoyed me the fan) but each book was satisfying. A dynamic series is when the story centres around the characters trying to solve one big conflict over the course of several books. This is one of the three ty

An ode for all the broke authors. Disclaimer: for the record, not all authors are broke. I mean, all the authors I know are making a decent living. Also, the links here are not sponsored or affiliate links. *Image taken from the thumbnail of the YouTube video down below. It was not uploaded by me. When I get rich I will be rich enough to buy a write book That will help to structure my novel You have 'nuff bucks when you get rich And when I get rich I will be rich enough to buy a cup of Coffee from the cafe right next door to me A few times a day And when I get rich I will buy a L'enger Circ' I can plan my book then rearrange In bed late every night And I'll start a Site Using  Wordpress and Bluehost Or maybe Siteground  or with HostPapa But I'll choose later 'Cause by then I'll have cash When I get rich When I get rich, when I get rich, (when I get rich) I will be rich enough to hire peeps To edit, judge and make a fr

We love reading about characters and the trouble they get into. But there's only so much love that goes around when it comes to fictional people. Sometimes, a large cast like in The Lord of the Rings  (JRR Tolkien) works, but a small cast like Pevensie siblings in The Chronicles of Narnia  (CS Lewis) usually works better. Here are some pros and cons for a small cast. Pros 1. It keeps the story concise. With a small cast, the story centres around those few characters. This is good because your characters are the heart of your story. People will read a not-so-amazing story if they have characters they care about. Without the choice of a large character group, most of the conflicts and dynamics are linked to a few characters. Everything around the story goes back to characters the reader cares about. The catch to this is that you must seriously develop this character. 2. It's easier to remember the characters. In a story, we tend to remember the main character fi

Welcome to the first post in This Quote Matters. This is a series I'm doing every first Monday of the month. The quotes I choose are ones I believe are important for authors to hear. Or, you know, read. Will this text be copied and pasted into the introduction for every This Quote Matters post? Yes, yes it will. "A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit." - Richard Bach Why This Matters As a young writer, I was like: Ah, those days when I had no computer. Or WiFi. Or knowing about these weird things called Writing Blogs. So there I was, writing stories with absolutely no structure whatsoever, zero emotional attachment and 100% dedicated to said is dead. In other words, the stuff I wrote was trash. Even when other people said it was good, I knew it wasn't great. Writing determination was like: But then I stumbled upon this quote. And I realised three important things. 1. Making mistakes is inevitable. Like it or not, you