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Letters of Rejection
A couple of months ago, I received my first ever rejection letter. It was short, printed on very good quality paper, and addressed to a Mr, despite the fact that directly above my name they’d managed...
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What To Write and When To Write It
As people, we think a lot of things over the course of a day, or a week, or year. And as writers, we form a lot of these into story ideas. Some of them we think about, we roll around our heads for a...
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Why Not?
I’ve hit rock bottom more time than I care to count in my life. Sometimes I thought I was already there and then things got worse. Last year was that for me. Still life goes on with or without me....
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The Year of Our Publication!
2013. I haven’t seen any others on here about it, so I’m going to jump in. You know, I’ve never worried very much about what my future held, always been satisfied to live in the moment and be happy...
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Author Interview – Rebecca Berto (Novel Girl)
Happy Merry Friday everyone! Today we have an awesome treat in the form of an interview with Rebecca Berto, author of ‘PRECISE’. Blurb Katie Anselin is a newlywed and hubby, Paul, is her life. He’s the...
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Why Not? Branching Out
I got given a wonderful opportunity not too long ago. An amazing writerly type friend of mine is getting the rights back on a short story that had been published in an anthology, and she wants to...
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A Little Bit On The Side – Part One
We all know that it’s only the lucky few who can make a living solely from the writing of novels and short stories. Most writers, even critically acclaimed ones, earn a living in some other profession....
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Annoying Habits In Writing
This post was inspired by by recent read of ‘The Casual Vacancy’ by J.K Rowling. Ignoring anything about the actual story, I found her use of brackets a little bit weird. There was also such an...
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A View of the Humble Romance Genre
First of all, an apology. I’m sorry – I have been away for a very long time due to illness. I’m currently away from my ‘real-life’ job too because of it, so naturally I am taking a hiatus from...
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The Group You Land In
I think most people can be split into those who could be a writer and writers. You’re reading our site, so I’m just going to assume you have a love for the written word, and maybe even want to write...
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Blank White Page
So I’ve just started a new project. I wrote a short story, decided that the concept would work as a novel and so sketched out a basic plot and started a new document. I changed the font and font size...
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Returning In a Rowing Boat
Rumours of a my demise are greatly exaggerated, I am back! I’m not full steam ahead or anything so spectacular – more rowing at minimal speed behind the QE2-like boat that is HMS Limebird. I’ve hardly...
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Why Not? Character Profiles
Mostly, I’m a pantser. I may have a minimal outline of where I want the story to go, but I let the story unfold as it will. One thing I do outside the norm for a pantser is create character profiles....
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Courage
I did it. Did what? Well.. .now there’s the story. I write feature articles for a local magazine where I live. It’s a nice publication and I’m very blessed to be associated with it. I’ve been...
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Rules For School
I got into a bit of a debate about speech marks when I was in a school recently which reminded me of something that happened in an editing class at Uni. At Uni my lecturer was saying that you should...
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Tips for Coaching New Writers
As my health has slowly improved, I’ve got back into coaching.I have just the one protégé at the moment, a fantastically gifted young writer just finishing her 1st year at University. I believe that...
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Memories As Inspiration
Marcel Proust famously addressed the theme of involuntary memory (precious fragments) in À la recherche du temps perdu; in ‘the episode of the madeleine’ where the taste of tea and cake brings to mind...
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Top Ten Writing Quotes
Do you ever find yourself aimlessly scrolling through pages of quotes until you’ve forgotten what you were looking for in the first place? Well that’s what I was doing the other day, for no other...
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Word Counts and Little Goals
I was at a poetry reading a while ago when one of the poets said that he didn’t like being friends with novelists because all they ever talk about down the pub is word counts. A few people laughed, a...
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Character Backstory – Important Or Not?
Of late I’ve been reviewing my short stories and have come to realize that my characters have very little background. That’s fine in a short story, because of the format some things are necessarily...
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