Tag: writing advice

  • How to Win as  Writer

    How to Win as Writer

    Read the whole thing at Mad Genius Club… We live in a society – or most of us do, since I’m sure there are a few readers who hail from distant shores that aren’t the US of A – which fosters the idea that everyone will win. Whatever the game is. From reading contests at…

  • Interesting articles

    Interesting articles

    I’m busily writing today. I was joking around that I was going to write until my hands fall off, and although that might be a slight exaggeration, I do plan to have sore fingers and wrists later. I’ve done 1500 words before breakfast, which gives me a great start. So rather than a lengthy blog…

  • Breaking the Rules

    Breaking the Rules

    I’m a bit of an iconoclast, if you read my blog you will have noticed that already. Indie author, on the cusp of that being acceptable (although I predict it will become the norm), not one to go along with teh litewawy dahlings, preferring to read for story, not message…. My First Reader sent me…

  • How Long?

    How Long?

    I finished my second novel yesterday. By that I do not mean that I will never touch it again, because there is a whole lot of work left to be done on it. But I wrote the final scene, several paragraphs further, sat and stared at it for a while, thinking about how best to…