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How to revive your creativity
Beating writer's block isn't always easy, but it can be fun
Oct 27, 2025 • HM Waugh
Keeping a reader hooked
My top five tips for maintaining reader attention
Aug 11, 2025 • HM Waugh
How not to get your creativity bogged
A brief update on a busy month, and my five top tips for naming characters
Jun 6, 2025 • HM Waugh
My top tips for submitting and getting a contract
AKA don't polish the poop
Apr 14, 2025 • HM Waugh
How to hide an heir
My method for keeping readers (and me!) guessing the hidden identity
Mar 14, 2025 • HM Waugh
Final checks, *a map* and sneak peak of the first lines
Prepping to send The Surface Trials to the printer, with all my love :)
Feb 10, 2025 • HM Waugh
When two story ideas combine... (plus a COVER REVEAL!)
The Surface Trials began as a mutant hybrid combo... and that's perfect!
Jan 6, 2025 • HM Waugh
World-building wizardry - my top tips
Fun + science + (kinda boring but really not) list = believable worlds
Dec 2, 2024 • HM Waugh
Books | Fun | Science with HM Waugh
Books | Fun | Science with HM Waugh
I write middle grade and young adult speculative fiction. As the release of my fifth book nears, I'm going to step through how it came about. Join me!
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