Archive for the ‘Thoughts on Writing’ Category

Switching and pitching

Posted: 15th July 2009 by admin in CHANGELING, genre fiction, new genre, new project, Steve Feasey, Thoughts on Writing, wip
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I’m at a crossroads: I have delivered three Changeling books to my publishers, and so I have fulfilled my contract. Now I have to think about what comes next, and it’s not as straightforward as I thought. I have every expectation that Macmillan will be offering me a new contract (that’s not a result of [...]

Back! Back I say!

Posted: 8th May 2009 by admin in submissions and rejections, Thoughts on Writing
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I feel bad about it. It’s ugly, but I’m going to blog about it anyway. It’s jealousy. People tell you that it’s a wasted emotion, and I know that there’s no better way to eat yourself alive than to give this particular human foible its head and let it get a hold. But come on, [...]

Getting back on the horse

Posted: 5th May 2009 by admin in Getting published, Thoughts on Writing, Writing
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My back is aching from all the DIY that I’ve been doing this weekend. Next time it’ll be GAMI (Get A Man In) for me. I’m really excited about getting back to writing today. I finished up on Friday, having written a great chapter, and after a three day lay-off (I feel guilty not writing [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Is there anybody out there?

Posted: 25th March 2009 by admin in authors speaking, CHANGELING, facebook, social networking, Steve Feasey, Thoughts on Writing, twitter
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I’m twittering as well now. Just when I thought I was getting a handle on my social networking habit (it’s just the odd status update [sniff], I can handle it), I’ve gone and joined Twitter. I justified this on the basis that it should take so little of my time that I’d be able to [...]

What’s in a name? PART TWO

Posted: 17th March 2009 by admin in CHANGELING, Dark Moon, Steve Feasey, Thoughts on Writing, Writing
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Phew! The poll that I ran to see what people thought of the title for book two closed today, and the results are hugely encouraging (thank God, because it’s already on Amazon under that title). 81% of the votes suggesting that the title was a good one. 5% of the people that voted didn’t like [...]

So what colour are edits? Red.

Posted: 27th February 2009 by admin in CHANGELING, changes to manuscript, Dark Moon, edit notes, editing, Getting published, Macmillan, published, Thoughts on Writing, vampires, werewolf, Writing
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Yesterday I received the editing notes for Changeling: Dark Moon, and I went through the usual raft of emotions that every author goes through once they realise that their submitted novel is not quite as perfect as they had thought it was. Now don’t get me wrong, I know my books aren’t perfect when they [...]

I didn’t want to win anyway…

Posted: 20th February 2009 by admin in CHANGELING, Getting published, Macmillan, Steve Feasey, Thoughts on Writing, vampires, werewolf
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ARGH! Yes I did. But I didn’t. So now I just have to ‘get over it’ and stop sulking. Wednesday night was the Waterstone’s Prize party. It was great to meet so many people from a company that is genuinely passionate about books and reading. It was a very nice bash, held on the top [...]

"I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way."

Posted: 3rd February 2009 by admin in CHANGELING, Steve Feasey, Thoughts on Writing, vampires, werewolf, Writing
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“How much of you is in the character, Trey?” I stopped and thought about this for a second. I’d read this type of question in interviews with authors before, and had never really paid too much attention to the answer (perhaps I should have – at least a neat and polished answer might have come [...]

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