This week in ‘writers abroad’, it’s all about me. When I conceived this series about people living away from their native country or having spent significant chunks of time outside it, I thought it would be amusing and entertaining. But I’ve had so many emails and comments on social media about how inspiring the posts […] 
The end. It’s the end of the challenge! Yes, I feel a certain relief, but I’m also energised. ‘Next month’ takes us into the third week in November. I won’t be doing NaNoWriMo when people aim to churn out 50,000 words as I find it too organised, but I will be aiming to get 1,000-1,500 […] 
Strictly, a literary trope is a rhetorical or figurative device, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect. Today, it’s also come to be used for describing commonly recurring literary and rhetorical devices and motifs in creative works. Right, now we’ve got the formal stuff out of the way, let’s look at how it […] Ah, well, that’s a bit in the air… I’m now 20,000 words into my new Roma Nova novel, so I have a good 60,000 words and a mountain-high pile of research. That will see the year out, I think. Depending on what happens next in the book world, next I might take up writing […] Word count is something writers can and do obsess about! In fact, it can become a tyranny which I wrote about here. (There are cats and orangutans.) The new Roma Nova book I’m working on (introduced here) is progressing steadily, if slowly. Word count is now up to 18,000 words, double what it was on […] |
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