Keep Your Readers Turning the Page

14th May 2022
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31st August 2022

A collection of free advice articles from bestselling author and creative writing tutor, Caroline Green, providing insight into some of the key elements required to write a novel that keeps readers turning page after page.

How to Write a Page-Turner course

Caroline Green's popular six-week online course, How To Write a Page-Turner, returns to W&A in October 2022. And by way of giving attendees a taster of Caroline's approach to crafting stories that readers just can't put down, we've collected a set of free advice articles that she contributed to the site during the recent lockdown periods we endured as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic.

For booking and further information about How to Write a Page-Turner, a six-week online evening course beginning 5th September 2022, click here.

 

"Asking questions and making promises are two of the key elements at work in any page-turning story. I'll explain what I mean..."  - listen here

 

"Fictional characters must always go through change as they progress through the story, dealing with the conflicts that are thrown at them and responding to them so that they grow or develop as people." - read here

 

"Page-turners also rely on strong, believable characters. Your readers have to care about them, even if they are dreadful people!" - read more

Caroline Green

Writing as Cass Green, Caroline's debut adult novel The Woman Next Door was a Number 1 e-book bestseller and her second, In A Cottage, In A Wood was a Sunday Times top ten and USA Today bestseller. She is also an award-winning author of fiction for young people. Her first novel, Dark Ride won the RONA Young Adult Book of the Year and the Waverton Good Read Award. Cracks was recommended on Radio 4’s Open Book programme and Hold Your Breath won the Oldham Book Award. She is the Writer in Residence at East Barnet School and has taught writing at City University and for Writers & Artists. In 2021, Sleep Tight, the first of three genre-bending police procedurals, was published by HarperCollins.

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