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Writers about writing

Alison and Morgen Bailey

Writers can’t help talking about writing, especially when they meet other writers. When I was invited by Morgen Bailey to take part in the online Self Pub Fest in January, I enthusiastically said yes!

Self-Pub Fest is a quarterly in person book festival celebrating self-published authors. The online festival […]

Writing tics – The beasties!

A writing tic is something you write over and over again without realising it. Perhaps you’re in the zone and the words are flowing, especially on your first draft. You’re bashing the story out and before you know it your favourite writing tic is all over the place.

We can be completely oblivious to the […]

Chapters – Entitled or just a number?

Is it better to put a title at the beginning of each chapter in your book or should you merely put a simple number? I’ve never used chapter titles when writing my own books although I’ve absorbed them when reading other books.

What do chapter titles do?

They can act as promises of what’s […]

Home or away? Choose your setting

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“Write what you know!“

There’s a statement that was hammered home at us when we were newbie writers.

Well, I half obeyed when I wrote my first book INCEPTIO. Actually, it was less than that. I knew the military bit, I’d clambered over a lot of Roman Europe and I knew […]