Author: Jordan

Jordan Kantey is an editor, writer and writing workshop facilitator. He’s been helping authors develop their stories for ten years. He achieved his Honours in English Literature with distinction from the University of Cape Town. He has had poems published in several journals and an anthology. He blogs about writing craft and process at Now Novel and loves to help aspiring authors reach their goals.

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He has been interviewed about his writing, editing and coaching on YouTube.
He has also shared his writing skills on sites such as Writers helping writers.
In addition, he served as a judge for a number of awards. These include Page Turner Young Writer Award as well as the Elegant Literature’s Behind the Veil’s contest for new writers.
He showcased his writing talents with a five-star rated writing guide, How to Write Scenes: A Concise Guide to Scene Structure, which is available on Amazon.

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Story settings Writing guides

Story setting and worldbuilding: Complete guide

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What is story setting and how do you create an immersive world? Read tips and examples and find helpful resources in this complete guide.

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Editing Writing Process

Revision in writing: How to improve between drafts

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Revision in writing, the third stage of the writing process, is a creative, pre-editing phase for developing your material so far and improving it. Read tips to make the most of this process.

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Writing Motivation Writing Process

Writing first drafts: 10 ideas to reach final drafts

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Writing first drafts is stage two of the five-stage writing process. Read ten ideas to make drafting a productive, freer, yet intent-aligned process.

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Finding ideas Writing Process

What is prewriting? Preparing to write with purpose

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Prewriting is an important stage of writing as it ensures your story project has purpose, a market, clarity, and the conceptual bedrock to build an enduring story. Learn more.

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Book marketing Book publishing Finding ideas

Book title ideas: How to come up with the best

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Knowing how to find book title ideas that intrigue readers is key to gaining your audience’s attention. Try these ten ways to choose a title for your novel.

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How to start a book Writing guides Writing Process

Story planning and outlining: Complete guide

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Story planning is an excellent solution to avoid getting stuck. Read why outlining stories is a smart choice, methods to plan stories, authors on planning and more, plus find extra resources on planning and story structure.

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How to start a book Story openings

How to start a novel: Hook readers from page one

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Learn how to start a novel so that your reader has questions and the desire to keep reading. Read first line examples, authors on how to begin, and what our newsletter readers said keeps them going after chapter one.

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NaNoWriMo Writing Process

What is NaNoWriMo? Rules and reasons to do it

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What is NaNoWriMo? Learn all about National Novel Writing Month, the rules, and 8 reasons why write-a-thons and writing bootcamps are worth doing.

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Story Structure Writing chapters

How to write a book chapter: 7 popular novels’ insights

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Learn how to write a book chapter that makes exposition concise, builds plot in units of action and reaction, and how to end chapters so that they extend readers’ questions.

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