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 […]
It’s starting to get cold and at this time of year it feels like it’s going to be a very long time until it will get any warmer. I live in a draughty old house with lots of old stone, so it’s cold… really cold, in fact I could turn my fridge off now and everything […]
People watch to find a character you like, that elderly lady on the bus what does she go home to? The young man in the coffee shop is he in love? Ask background questions of everyone you chose and your pefect character will emerge. Write daily, whether its a sentence or a ream just keep […]
Having just decided on a cover for ‘After The Light, After The Love’ I realised how difficult it can be to come up with an image that sums up your book without going down the conventional route of just picking a cover that sums up the genre that you are writing. I have seen many […]
Another strand to the graphology posts. just a quick one this time, do you loop your letters? If you freely write a paragraph’s worth of words, just random if you can’t think of anything to write, then take a look at your L’s, S’s and e’s, how loopy are they? L’s are your loops closed? […]
So you have your signature and you know a little about what you are showing the world with the way you write. There’s much more to it than that, there are all of those little twiddly bits and personalised sweeps of the pen. That’s where you’re really hiding your personality. If you want to change […]
Why do we choose to write, it’s not easy or glamorous, it eats our time and makes our families suddenly have to fend for themselves as we’re wrapped up in grammar, spelling, research, formatting, design, graphics, publicity and accountancy. We tie ourselves into a fantasy world and push away reality… why? It’s hard work, I […]
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