I was editing my second book, a speculative fiction thriller (see previous post). I came upon one of those paragraphs I must have written at midnight after a very busy day with irregular meals and a lot of alcohol.
The characters made it from A to B, they had a conversation of two lines and […]
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Remember Filofax? Like many people in the 1980s, I toted a black, approx A5 sized leather folder which not only contained my diary, notes and address book, but also expenses sheets, stamp and card holders, to do lists, maps, vocabulary lists – in short, my life.
Came the electronic revolution, I waved it bye-bye. The […]
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Writing the first book of my Roma Nova stories, I found I needed to develop a tracking system not only of the action but also of its timing.
It’s so easy when engrossed in producing any story, let alone a thriller, to inadvertently get events in the wrong sequence or introduce a character to another […]
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With my writing buddy Denise at the RNA Conference
Update (April 2018) at the end
I enjoyed a ‘writerly’ evening with another novel writer, Denise Barnes who is also preparing her first fiction work. She’s already published a non-fiction book which can be seen at her site.
We swap hints and tips, recommend […]
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