Craft
£1000 to spend at Writers Mart today! Kerching!
Imagine you have £1000 and you have to spend it on your book. The aim is to get your book to market, and make as much money as you can…
What does a pear taste like?
How do you describe the taste of a pear to someone if you have never tasted one before? And, more importantly, how would your characters describe it?
Room of One’s Own.
Nourishment, inspiration and seeds of creativity…
Time to Write – Fancy that?
Literary lunches, Workshops, Bedtime Stories and time to write. Yes! I am finally going on my first writing anything.
That Tricky Second Novels
Maybe, I thought, Novel Three will be novel two and Novel Two will be novel three? Perhaps that will make most sense…
Pub/Lit Roundup (2)
It’s another lit-tastic ‘Top 20′ Links and resources for writing, publishing and more…
Layers not Lines
I’ve been trying to explain how I write – without formalising a plot (I think this makes me what is called a Pantser) – to writers who are more used to devising their plot before they start (Plotters). So here goes.
Everything Speaks: The Intention in Our Words
The one rule for writing in which I truly believe: Every line of dialogue, every apple on every tree, every pot boiling over or empty letterbox, every character flaw – everything in our writing has a message for the reader whether we intend it or not.
15 rules for writing novels.
Once you have rewritten your manuscript according to the above rules it will be ready to blend in with others on the slushpile.
Misery Loves Company
I want to make a happy man miserable, and then pull him out of the other side.
Pub/Lit Roundup
I’ve decided to keep a log of the best links I find and post or retweet on Twitter and I will post them here periodically. Here is the first batch of twenty:
Zen and the Art of First Draft Writing
How I learned to train my inner puppies.
Who are you, anyway?
Are our characters actions, and the personality we mean to give them, always congruent?
Dirty Windows
In your story – who knows what, and when?
A River of Stones
Looking back – over a period of time which can often seem to fly by leaving me wondering where the days went – these stones remind me of the moments we often brush past. Time slows a little.
Characters, Conflict and Psychology
Transactional Analysis can help with character development, as well as forming the basis for conflict.
Gone Fishing
I had forgotten how much my brain needed airing.
First person, present tense: Snog, marry, or throw off a cliff?
I recently finished writing a literary novel, which I wrote in first person, present tense. I can already hear some of you wincing.
