As you may know, my writing is more sporadic these days. Gone are the days when my fingers regularly tapped frantically in the hope of churning out a best seller. Now there is more time to obsess over each chapter before I return to my trusty laptop. In the past I have lived with the …
Looking back at my Writer’s Notebook – Part Four
I'm still not even halfway looking back at my old notebook... But I'll make this my last musings on its contents. One thing that's surprised me straight away is that I originally was going to title the last in the Angel and Actors series novels, Drama Queens and Demonic Beings. So glad I didn't. There …
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Looking back at my Writer’s Notebook – Part Three
This week I'll be sharing notes from a workshop on editing between drafts. Over the last two weeks I've been going through my first writer's notebook and rediscovering my musings on improving my manuscripts, and sharing dot points from seminars I attended on writing. Today's blog is a hybrid of the two from an author …
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Looking back at my Writer’s Notebook – Part Two
Notes on first time publishing, working with your editor, and writing villains is what I'm sharing with you this week. Last week I told you that I'm browsing through my first notebook, rediscovering its contents. Many of its initial pages are devoted to rewrites of my first novel. The next few pages are from seminars …
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Looking back at my Writer’s Notebook – Part One
I filled my first writer's notebook. My friend, Brett, gave it to me as a present for my birthday over ten years ago. It also came with a lovely pen on which he engraved 'The pen is mightier than the sword'. Inside the notebook, he wrote an inscription of which some of the lines are: …
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Writing Tips – Guest Post by Ari Meghlen
Today's guest blogger is a bit of an enigma. We know Ari Meghlen's avatar from her Twitter site as she shares daily questions for us to consider under the hashtag #TheMerryWriter. She is working on several books yet hasn't been published. But she has flash fiction pieces on her website, as well as a wealth …
Writing Tips – Guest blog by author, J.P. Jackson
The third in this series of Writing Tips this year are from J.P. Jackson. By day, J.P. Jackson works as an IT analyst in health care during the day, where if cornered he’d confess to casting spells to ensure clinicians actually use the electronic medical charting system he configures and implements. At night however, the writing …
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Writing Tips – Guest Blog by author, Glenn Quigley
The second author to grace us with his writing tips this year is Glenn Quigley. Glenn is a graphic designer originally from Dublin and now living in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. He creates bear designs for http://www.themoodybear.com. He has been interested in writing since he was a child, as essay writing was the one and only …
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Writing Tips – Guest blog by author M.D. Neu
It's been a while since I've posted a guest series on writing tips. But over the next few weeks several published authors are going to share their's. The first to guest blog for me is M.D. Neu. Neu is a LGBTQA Fiction Writer with a love for writing and travel. Living in the heart of …
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The cliff hanger
Do you round up your chapters or add a cliff hanger? This was a question posed by someone using the #writingcommunity hashtag on Twitter. My answer is that I initially rounded up chapters until an editor made me stop. Her reasoning was that if you round up your chapters into neatly self contained stories, then a …
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