Ten Things You Need to Know About: Writing as a Career
Ten Things You Need to Know About: Writing as a Career 1. Find the balance between writing what you love and what will sell. Sometimes you have to face the reality that the kind...
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Dear Beatrice Prior
This post may contain Divergent, Insurgent, and/or Allegiant spoilers. Dear Tris, First things first: I have to commend you on your selflessness in the face of the massive destruction of everything you once knew...
Dear Katniss Everdeen
This post may contain The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and/or Mockingjay spoilers. Dear Katniss, I get it, girl. You’re under a lot of pressure. Not every teenager is faced with being sent to an...
Talking with writers – interview about characters
Welcome to Character Circus ~ where they like to let you think you are the one pulling strings. * {as you might have noticed, I happened to be somewhat absent recently – apologies for...
Novels and Nonsense #3 – Opening Chapters
Anyone who’s ever received a first chapter review from me will have probably been a victim of my ‘opening chapters are vitally important’ preach. As annoying as my preaching may be though, it is...
Novels and Nonsense #2 – Planning Your Novel
So you’ve got a fantastically kick-ass novel idea, and you just can’t wait to spew words all over the place in a flurry of awesomeness. To accompany that idea, you may or may not...
Novels and Nonsense #1 – Taking That First Step
‘Sup, my hedogz ‘nd shedogz. As someone who’s pretty much incapable of anything besides writing novels (though the quality of said novels is arguable), I felt it the obvious subject choice for my new...
I want your questions!
Lovely readers, you may have noticed my brief absence from my usual slot on Saturdays where I babble on about publishing and books and being a professional at this writer thing. Part of this...
