New ideas are great. They’re certainly better than no ideas at all. But if you get new ideas while writing, AFTER you’ve plotted and written a lot of your novel, they can be disruptive and frustrating. I’m a mix when it comes to plotting. Sometimes I’ll plot...
Where do I even begin? The past couple of weeks have been pretty awful for a lot of people for multiple reasons. This virus is unlike anything many of us have ever seen and it has affected us in different ways. I’m writing a post about the mental health effects...
If you’re a fiction writer and keep hearing people like me say GET A BLOG for god sake, then you might be taken aback and stuck. What the hell do you blog about? As an unpublished author no less. The good thing is you don’t have to wait until you’re published. In...
Do fiction writers need a website? Every so often I see this question asked over Twitter and the answers are usually a mixed bag. In this post, I wanted to give my opinions on the subject. As someone who works with website content on a daily basis as a freelance...
Well, this has been an eventful few months. I’ve taken a step back from this blog and from writing fiction, because life, as usual, has gotten in the way. Over the past few months: The good – I’ve acquired an excitable puppy – which has really affected my...
