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Here’s my tip on starting off your (fiction) novel on a good footing. It takes 2 questions. The first is what can you believe? The second is what can you unbelieve? Believe me, the things you believe in are not enough to start a novel well. You need to imagine away what you need to change. When you can do this well, you can write your opening, or if you pre-plot -begin drafting your outline. Today, I used this technique to create a strong fictional skeleton for my novel’s fin

I’m a new, published author. I started writing in 2019, just 7 years ago. I became pretty good at the craft in 2022, after 3 years of practice, when I self-published a collection of 3 short stories (mss2). In 2025, I began talks to hybrid publish with Partridge Singapore, and the result was my first paperback novella, ‘iS’, released early 2026. Just 100 pages / 20k words. DeepSeek labelled it a ‘potential cult classic’, ‘the thinking man’s sci-fi’. Currently, I’m working on m