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Award-winning novelist Lucy Atkins explains the importance of drip-feeding information to your reader so that they never stop turning the pages

Step 7: Award-winning novelist Lucy Atkins explains the importance of crafting believable characters and offers advice on how to bring them to life

Award-winning novelist Lucy Atkins explains why the location of your novel is a crucial platform from which your plot and characters can grow

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.

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

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…

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

Step 5: Award-winning novelist, Lucy Atkins, says this month’s task is to let that initial draft flow freely, but be ready to hack it back when the time comes

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