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Posted on 7 Aug 20221 Aug 2022

When author business gets in the way of writing

I haven't touched my WiP in six weeks. First it was simply a case of a sudden trip north to catch up with family when an invite to Warren's great niece's eighteenth birthday arrived. And even though I took my laptop, I was busy being social after being trapped in my own state due to …

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Posted on 24 Jul 202220 Jul 2022

Book Review – Gay Bar, Why We Went Out

The author, Jeremy Atherton Lin, is ten years younger than me. Which made reading Gay Bar, Why We Went Out all the more interesting hearing from the perspective of someone who started his gay bar adventures when I was embracing a scene he was still navigating. Plus, his tales take place in LA, San Francisco …

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Posted on 3 Jul 20227 Aug 2022

I’ve written several versions of the same short scene!

The scene is only several paragraphs long. It's the last time we're alone with just the gay characters in my work-in-progress set in the nineties. In the initial draft they talk about Australian politics at the final stage of that decade. Only one other chapter examined politics and that was in an overall 1990's way. …

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Posted on 19 Jun 202217 Aug 2022

Plotting using The Snowflake Method

My last post was about a new plotting method I'm using. A few things got in the way of my usual writing days after I published that post, and somehow I didn't feel bad about missing them. It was because I didn't feel like I was working on a book. There were a few times …

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Posted on 5 Jun 202217 Aug 2022

Taking time to plot my book

I'm trying something new. Usually when I plot a new novel, I work chapter by chapter having a fair idea of the story and how it will end. I also add notes on the conflict for each scene and every chapter's cliff hanger. But I'm experimenting with a different approach called the Snowflake Method. Right …

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Posted on 22 May 202214 May 2022

Finding the right Beta Reader

I don't normally solicit feedback on my works in progress. Yet I have used Beta Readers twice in recent years, and my first novel was professionally assessed several times. This paid assessor gave feedback over several drafts before I decided to have another draft looked at by a team at a publishing house, for the …

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Posted on 8 May 20223 May 2022

Waiting to see if your new book is selling.

There's a unique anxiety after the release of a novel. It doesn't happen straight away. We are on a buzz when our new book is in the public arena. We're busy marketing while finding new promotional possibilities. We're updating our website and searching for new reviews. Then searching for new reviews again. And again. But …

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Posted on 24 Apr 202221 Apr 2022

Thoughts on ‘Strangers On a Train’ by Patricia Highsmith

This is not a book review. It's about what I learnt from reading this classic novel and has some elements of critique in it. A month ago I posted a blog about how anything you read influences your work in progress. My current project is written in third-person. All but one of my published works …

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Posted on 27 Mar 202226 Mar 2022

Anything you read helps your work in progress

Sometimes I choose what I read carefully. For example, I read H.G. Wells and Ray Bradbury when I worked on my first dystopian novel. My assessor got me to read Joe Keenan as she wanted me to hone in on the farcical elements of my first book. But when I'm reading for pleasure, whatever style …

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Posted on 13 Mar 20229 Mar 2022

I’m replacing an entire character

In my last blog I wrote about writing a summary for a book submission. And although it's for a novel I'm still working on, it hasn't stopped me considering how to pitch it to potential publishers. I've created a 500 word and a 300 word synopsis, and a 200 word summary, in line with what …

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