Posts Tagged ‘writing’

A writer acquaintance of mine approached me today and asked if I would be interested in meeting up with her and another friend to appraise and critique each other’s work. She suggested that writing is such a lonely profession that it helps to get together and share where you are in your writing with others. [...]

Stories have a funny habit of creeping up and ambushing you when you’re least expecting them. At times their insistence on being heard is almost pernicious in nature, and it seems as though some of the best ones wait until you’re smack-bang-in-the-middle of your current work in progress before they reveal themselves, jumping up and [...]

What’s cookin’?

Posted: 3rd April 2012 by admin in Uncategorized
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      What do you do when you’re not writing? What are you working on now that you’ve finished [insert book title here]? These are questions I get asked all the time (and I very much doubt I’m alone on this one) . There seems to be a feeling among some people that when [...]

1. “So, what do you do for a living?” This isn’t an unusual question, but it’s the start of what is to come. Hence, I hate it. It’s about this time I wish I hadn’t given up my job as a space-monkey hunting Astroninja. 2. “Will I have read anything you’ve written?” How this usually [...]

Today I put the last sentence to my last chapter of my new book, CHOSEN. So I’m finished, right?  Wrong!  I’m in the terrible limbo state of having, “completed my book to the best of my ability given the time constraints imposed on me by a) a deadline and b) my inability to get my [...]

1. Get up nice and early, make yourself comfortable in your favourite writing place and turn on your computer. 2. Check your email for exciting news from your agent or publisher. 3. Look at the notes you made the previous day. 4. Put the kettle on and make coffee/tea. 5. Go back to your desk [...]