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My Writing Journey

It all begins with an idea. Over the years I’ve had plenty of book ideas. Two of them even made it to being written - partially. But I...

How do you like to write? I was quite amused when I started my writing journey in earnest in 2020, to find out that there were two...

So far, I’ve not had a problem with writers block. But I do have a problem of the old procrastination-beast rearing its head. When I find...

Characters are the engines of your story. They are your avatars (not the blue kind, or the element bending kind) into the world in which...

Very Your opening chapter is the first part of your novel that your reader encounters, or that your publisher reads when deciding on...

Writing can be tough. It can be stressful. It can challenging. One might even say it can be . . . tense? Tenses are, for better or worse,...

Or, what is the ‘right’ order to write in? I see this question come up a lot in the writing groups I am in: When to employ an editor,...

I learnt recently that neurodivergent folk have something called savant skills. This was quite exciting to me, as a recently diagnosed...

There are lots of reasons, whether you are an author, blogger, send newsletters or emails to customers or have a website. Anyone who...

How many writers have had ‘agents’ or ‘publishers’ or any other unsolicited book marketers or experts approach them saying they can get...

First of all, warning! I am not a publishing expert. But I have spent a while going round the houses and finding out quite a bit of...