In previous blogs I have advocated blog writing as tool for improving your writing, whatever your genre or subject. Here I want to champion short story writing. Also the reading of short stories. I think […]
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5 more reasons writers should blog
Some months ago I wrote a blog, ‘5 reasons why writers should blog’. Well many more weeks of blogging have strengthened my belief of how important it is, to me at least as a writer. […]
‘If it doesn’t move the story along, take it out,’ – good advice or not?
OK, hands up, who’s been given, or read the advice that: ‘if it doesn’t move the story along, take it out’? Or at least words to that effect. My guess is just about every writer […]
8 Writers ‘Resolutions’
I’m calling these resolutions because it’s that time of year. But they’re more a collection of things I know I need to do to “maximise my potential” (sorry that’s a phrase from a previous incarnation […]
30, yes 30! things I’ve learnt in 2013
2013 in many ways has been a big year for me. I started blogging, twitter and e-published my first two books. So, in no particular order, this is what I’ve learnt this year: Twitter isn’t […]