I’ve just read a great post on reasons we don’t get that new book finished and it got me thinking about all of the stupid things we do to avoid the blank page. We’re all guilty of many of these, me more than most recently. So this is a reminder that these really are excuses […]
I have recently found myself unable to write, that was okay I had more important things to think about but I did start to get concerned about how or if I would get started again. I thought that maybe my writing career was over. So if you are going through the same kind of thing […]
Hope your work in progress is going well and everything is going to plan. I hope this will help a little with setting your scenes, or you may have some tips of your own. How do you set your scenes? We’ve all read books that either have no atmosphere or have so much description they become boring, so […]
***MINI RANT WARNING.*** It seems it’s always this time of year that I start to see authors advertising their courses, imparting valuable information, and charging for it. They will tell you how you should write your book. They tell you that they can make you a bestselling author. The big names are too busy writing their […]
Your book is written, rewritten and edited, congratulations. Now is the time to decide what you want to do with your body of work and to decide if you need an ISBN number for your book. If you choose to go the traditional route and get yourself a publishing house, this is not something you […]
You’ve toiled and sweated over writing your book, you’ve got the allotted amount of words and your plot has worked out well for you. Now it’s time to go back to the beginning and start again, time to check your spelling, grammar, plot lines and structure. You know that one character will have disappeared from […]
So here we go, you’ve decided what you’re going to write about and you’ve done a little people watching to sort out your characters, you’ve been scribbling daily I hope, as the excitement of the new project is in the writing not all of the preperation. You have also worked out what sort of word […]
Hope the writings going well and those ideas are flowing for you. If you’re a new author, writing fiction, this could be a useful piece of information for you. I know when I started out I was looking for some idea about word counts and what readers expected when they would be reading my work. […]
So you have your pen, paper and ideas, I hope you’ve started writing everything down. Ever passing thought, hopeful storyline and character ideas. It’s the exciting part when the ideas come through thick and fast. You’ll write it out in your own style, this is not the time to start listening to other authors, there […]
Have you got a story in you that’s just yearning to get out, always wanted to write, or are you a reluctant writer that doesn’t really aspire to writing, but a story just keeps filling your head and you need to get it on paper. Whatever your route to the world of writing, you will […]
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