Charlotte Betts

Fifteen tips for writing your first, or indeed your twenty-first novel!

When you start your first novel you’ll be in love with the whole idea, not only with your concept for the story but the fact that you are going to be a real AUTHOR! Your books will be in Waterstones, you’ll earn as much a JK Rowling, fans will ask you to sign their copies of your book …

Conflict is an essential ingredient of a good story. I’d go so far as to say that without conflict there is no story.