Archive for April, 2009

Author Interview at Write Away

Posted: 28th April 2009 by admin in CHANGELING, interview, nikki gamble, Steve Feasey, write away
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My interview with Nikki Gamble of Write Away is on their website now: http://www.writeaway.org.uk/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,4529/Itemid,99999999/

Begin at the beginning

Posted: 23rd April 2009 by admin in beginnings, book openings, CHANGELING, Dark Moon, editing, Steve Feasey, Thoughts on Writing, Writing
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The beginning of a novel, and how to go about it, poses some interesting problems (for me at least). There is a popular school of thought that says that you need a momentous opening: a dead body, a car crash, a fight, the loss of a loved one, the accidental detonation of a small thermo-nuclear [...]

Fix bayonets!

Posted: 20th April 2009 by admin in CHANGELING, Dark Moon, edit notes, editing, Getting published, Macmillan, published, Steve Feasey, Writing
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I finished the latest round of edits from my publisher on Friday, and when I closed down my laptop there was a big, stupid grin on my face. It’s a great feeling to know that you’ve got through another round of edits. It’s like taking your book by the hand, and running through a muddy [...]

The ideas idea – Is it such a weird idea?

Posted: 2nd April 2009 by admin in daemon, Thoughts on Writing, writer's block
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It’s a question that I get asked time and time again: Where do you get your ideas from? And the truth is, for me at least, I don’t honestly know. I’ve been thinking about it more and more since watching a presentation by Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity that really pushed all of the right [...]