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Writing Advice Series…
Its been an interesting and stressful week for me – but it’s Friday now and this weekend is set to be a good one, with a theatre visit on Saturday, and Sunday hopefully a relaxing Mother’s Day. Last...
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Writing Advice Series: What To Do To Boost Motivation…
I’ve left it a long time to get round to writing something else for the Writing Advice Series! As you can tell from the past few posts on my blog, I’ve been struggling a lot with motivation and trying...
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On Wishing and Writing
Today, I’ve been thinking about what it would take for me to have a routine that I stick to each day. If you have a routine, especially as a writer – turning up at the same time in the same place each...
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Writing Advice Series: Goal Setting.
Goal setting, for a writer, is one of those things where its tempting to make lots of lists of huge things that might be far into the future. For example, writing a novel. When you write that down on...
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Second Time Around
So, its been a week – and I have a good excuse, promise! I’ve been struck down with a nasty cold and on Thursday, I started NaNoWriMo for the second time. So I’ve just lacked general energy between the...
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A Manifesto.
Happy Sunday – hope wherever you are you’re having a good day. I’m listening to Corinne Bailey Rae on my iPhone (with a neckloop) and pondering the next chapter I’m going to write for the NaNoWriMo...
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Progress.
I’m at that point with my NaNo novel where I’m wondering if I’ll have the energy to reach 50,000. On Friday, I almost headed for burn out by reaching 17,000 because I knew I wouldn’t get any writing...
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Supernatural.
It’s more than half way through NaNoWriMo now, and I took a break yesterday because otherwise I think I might head for burnout! Or maybe not, we’ll see. As much as I feel I need a break, I know that I...
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Writing Advice Series: Making Time.
In my time, I’ve read a lot of different advice about making the time for writing, or creative endeavours. A lot of the time, it seems that people say things like ‘I wish I had the time’ or ‘I need to...
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Writer Interviews: Sophie Woolley.
Sophie Woolley is a deaf writer and actor well known for her quirky stage plays, such as When to Run, Fight Face and The Bee Detective. She has created a brilliant parody series called Deaf Faker on...
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Words of Empathy.
Writers don’t write from experience, though many are resistant to admit that they don’t. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems....
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Writer Interviews: Maggi Summerhill.
Maggi is Danish and lives in Wales with her husband and two boys. She has a Masters in creative writing and script writing and has contributed to a number of online and printed publications, including...
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Writing Prompts.
Just a little signpost towards my Monday Writing Prompts on Fate is Chance, Destiny is Choice. my website. If you’re in need of a bit of inspiration, have a look. I’ve also got Fiction Friday posts;...
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The Memoir Project.
I’m reading a book at the moment called The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text For Writing and Life by Marion Roach Smith. When I bought it, I thought it would follow the structure of...
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All of the NaNos and NaBlos and PoMos.
I’m limping into the final week of NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month), and it’s been an experience. This time last year, I was dragging my way into the last few days of my second year of...
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The Writing Habit
I’d be the first to say to any aspiring writer that what writers need the most is a firm writing habit. The kind of habit that everything else is organised around, that is such a fixture of your life,...
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Monday Night Inspiration: Starting Again
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you might know that I’ve started a number of projects, novels and ideas which didn’t quite pan out the way I thought they would. I become enthusiastic and...
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Overcoming First Draft Fear
Whilst I write this first draft, I feel old doubts and fears surfacing. The ones that make you want to delete everything or give it up, never write again. There are many fears that push at you, telling...
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Building the Paranormal
Building a paranormal and supernatural world has been a challenge. I’ve written 6 chapters (around 17,500 words) and assumed that I had enough of a clear idea of what I was doing. This was a mistake,...
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Ten Books About Writing and Creativity
When I first started writing again, 7 years ago, I voraciously read as many books about writing and creativity that I could get my hands on. This is a perfectly valid thing to do, both because of the...
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