How to write a novel: creating real characters
Step 7: Award-winning novelist Lucy Atkins explains the importance of crafting believable characters and offers advice on how to bring them to life
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How to write a novel: setting the right scene
Award-winning novelist Lucy Atkins explains why the location of your novel is a crucial platform from which your plot and characters can grow
How to write a novel
In step one of the creative process, award-winning novelist, Lucy Atkins, invites you to take yourself seriously, but to tell no one you are writing a novel.
How to write a novel: looking for trouble
Step 4: Award-winning novelist, Lucy Atkins, says this month’s task is to probe your characters and their circumstances, and turn up the heat
How to write a novel: don’t lose the plot
Step 2: Award-winning novelist, Lucy Atkins, says let your imagination run wild this month, and don’t get too tied down by thinking of a plot, just yet…
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How to write a novel: make the time to write
Step 3: Award-winning novelist, Lucy Atkins, says a mental shift is needed this month – your writing should be a top priority, not an afterthought
Achieve a better mind-body connection in 5 steps
You can improve your health, life and sporting ability by training your mind, says Psychologies kindness tsar David Hamilton, author of Your Mind Can Heal Your Body
Artificial intelligence and the dilemma of outsourcing thinking
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been heralded as the ‘fourth industrial revolution’, set to change all aspects of our daily lives. But for all the improvements it will bring, the coming smart machine age may also impact on our minds in ways we can only conjecture, as AI expert Dr Michelle Tempest reveals
4 ways to overcome feelings of anxiety
Overcome feelings of anxiety and low mood and start feeling like yourself again
