In my previous blog I reflected on what I’d learnt in 2017. So now It’s time to look forward to a new year and make my writer’s plans for 2018, a.k.a. resolutions. I do this […]
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Another year as a writer – time to reflect
Well, that’s almost it for 2017. I don’t know whether it’s because I’m a writer and there never seems to be enough time, or it’s just that I’m getting older (as everyone does of course). […]
What does it take to be a writer? – Persistence
For most writers success is not an overnight event. One of my all time, and sadly missed, writer heroes, Iain Banks, completed five or six books before being published. He persisted. Now I write this […]
Meet Inspector Kirby
Inspector Kirby, Jonah to his friends and ‘old school’ to his junior colleagues, wandered out of the cottage. He crossed the road and headed down the lane, with thorny hedge rows either side, that led […]
Getting into your characters – Inspector Kirby and Harold Longcoat
My latest project, Inspector Kirby and Harold Longcoat, due to be launched in a few week’s time, was great fun to write. Possibly, because it’s a change from my normal diet of science fiction, set […]