Posts tagged ‘Writing’

Jul 28

Finding — No — MAKING time to write

I take EVERY opportunity I can to write. Having a full time day job that is reasonably demanding, I HAVE to if I want to write more than one paragraph every six months. Read more

Jul 21

How do you SEE your characters?

I consider myself quite a visual person. My mother and step-father are both visual artists (my step-father sadly passed in 2010). Read more

Jul 14

My MUSE is addicted to prescription pills

I had a middle ear infection last week (I know, totally TMI), but, in addition to discovering I have a dodgy eustachian tube, I also found out there’s something to be said about lying around, doped up on promethazine, to light the spark of inspiration. Read more

Jun 9

The nearly ALWAYS occasionally BORING task of plotting a story

As I pointed out in this post, the problem with plotting is that it can be SO BORING. My plotting up until a couple of years ago consisted of some hastily typed notes at the beginning of my manuscripts. Read more

Jun 2

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Plotter vs Pantser. The Final Countdown (cue Rocky music)!

For years, I’ve considered myself a slow writer. I can sit at my computer for an hour and knock out three sentences. Even on the days when I manage to write a couple of thousand words, I end up deleting half of them Read more

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  • HOW TO WRITE DIALOGUE WHEN YOU HATE IT February 12, 2017
    DIALOGUE. You either love it (like Hemingway) or you loathe it (like me). Proust likened dialogue to stained glass and the prose around it like the supporting frame. For me, the prose around it is the frame, the wall and the whole GOSHDARN building. It’s not that I find writing dialogue difficult, but I tend … Continue reading HOW TO WRITE DIALOGUE WHEN YOU […]
  • RESPECT your writing (and the value of commercial fiction) February 10, 2017
    I recently watched La La Land (like three times). By the third time I was able to sit through it without bawling like a baby. It had a profound effect on me, which I wasn’t expecting AT ALL. This means you can expect to find more La La Land references in future posts, but, for … Continue reading RESPECT your writing (and the value of commercial fiction)