Summer is here – warm, lazy days, extra wine, days out with the family and friends, a holiday away. But when the temperature is persistently over 30C, I tend to wilt. Yesterday reached 39C in the shade. My Muse has gone for a protracted lie down somewhere in a cool cave several metres underground.
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Writing as a life choice isn’t easy. It’s actually a bit mad. But those who have the urge just can’t stop.
However, everybody will give you advice and I suppose I’m doing the same here. 🙂
Not advice about punctuation, dialogue or how to set the scene or bring characters to life – that’s craft […]
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Source: The Apostrophe Protection Society
Briefly, possession and omission. Yep, it’s that easy.
People get very hot under the collar about apostrophes, me included. First my mother, then my wonderful English teachers – Mrs Campbell and Miss Robson – eradicated any nonsense about misuse out of me at an early age. Like other […]
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Whether you’re invited or have submitted a pitch to speak at a conference it’s the same on the day. You have a mass of faces in front of you. You re alone in the arena and the lions are pacing back and forth, tongues salivating. The be-tunicked and be-toga-ed are watching, a smile on their […]
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Yes and no.
Writing a novel is creative – you have to have a purpose, some characters and a setting which all interact. Throw in a triggering act to stir them all up and get the story going. Storytellers have known this since the year dot.
A modern novelist is basically a storyteller with a […]
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