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Continue reading →: Opportunity Surfing at A Writer’s Bucket List
Just written for A Writer’s Bucket List – a website I well recommend to all aspiring writers and especially to those just starting out on their professional careers. Lots of freebies available there too. Have a look at my post here – “Opportunity Surfing“ – and please leave a little love there…
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Continue reading →: Figuring Out Your Story’s Turning Points
I’m away on a ‘Research Holiday’ in Thailand at the moment so here’s another reblog from WITS. If you like following plans and layouts to help you build a frame to your novel-writing, this is worth its weight in gold. Highly recommended. Figuring Out Your Story’s Turning Points | Writers…
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Continue reading →: 7 Tips For Finishing The First Draft | Writers In The Storm Blog
WITS is an excellent blog site for writers and I make sure I read every post they publish. They cover a full range of topics relating to writing including managing and writing your will. Even with posts on romance (a genre I don’t do too much) there’s usually an idea…
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Continue reading →: 10 Things To Do To Become a Better Writer in 10 Days
“Don’t speak. Not even when asked a question. Point when your husband asks you where you keep the toilet paper. Smile and nod when your neighbor asks about your weekend. Don’t email or IM. Just be silent.” via » 10 Things To Do To Become a Better Writer in 10…
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Continue reading →: » 5 Ways to Make Your Novel Helplessly Addictive
“You know what’s the best kind of book to write? The kind that gets little rips in the bottoms of the pages from readers turning the pages too fast.” The second of three posts for this writer’s website which I found really interesting to read. This editor knows her…
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Continue reading →: 5 Ways to Make Your Novel Unforgettable
“There is only one purpose to storytelling, and that is to get to the CLIMAX. So if your novel’s CLIMAX is boring, redundant, more trouble than it’s worth—FORGETTABLE—then you have a problem no amount of writerly marketing hype can overcome.” This is the first of three posts giving you…
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Continue reading →: Malaprops, Bushisms & Mondegreens | kenthinksaloud
This is a re-blog from my other site kenthinksaloud. If you read both, sorry to give you a double helping! Otherwise enjoy this little piece – I hope you learn something…fun, if nothing else. The blog ‘Interesting Literature’ is well worth following too. It’s one of my favourite blogs at…
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Continue reading →: Inspiration from Rejection
Here’s a little something to inspire you if you’re a writer, like me, just starting up and trying to grow your list of clients. We all know that if we offer our work up to editors, agents, publishers and the like, we’re going to get rejected. So far, I’m pleased…
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Continue reading →: Write or re-write
Now, here’s a thing. To write or re-write, that is – in a sense – the question. As I develop my craft, preparing over the next twelve months to see if I can earn a living at this writing game by the time I get back to the UK and…
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