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Ten Screw-Ups You'll Fix In Draft Two 24 Jul 2013 | 06:37 pm
I've blogged about how I love writing the very first draft, or Draft Zero as I call it. The sheer exhilarating freedom of knowing that no-one will ever read it. Slamming words down on the page, doin...
Brandy In The Basement! 19 Jul 2013 | 05:52 pm
Look at that! The cover of the new collaboration between me and the author JMR Higgs. As you may be able to discern, it's a combination of the artwork for Higgs' short novel The Brandy Of The Damned...
The Pomodoro Technique 22 Jun 2013 | 10:32 pm
This fairly well-known time management method dates back to the 1980s. I was using the thing a while back, then drifted out of it. I've recently adopted it again and feel it's here to stay. I wante...
A Sincere Warning About Available Ebook Formats 21 Jun 2013 | 12:40 am
Relax, this isn't really a warning at all. Ho ho, got you there, eh? Eh? Just wanted to let you know that the ebook version of my 10,000-word ghost story A Sincere Warning About The Entity In Your ...
Writing And Spammer-Baiting 23 May 2013 | 05:07 pm
Being the eagle-eyed reader you are - one who I'd have to get up pretty damn early to fool - you'll have noticed that I haven't written much about writing on this blog of late. That's because I've be...
Twitter Promotion Vs Twitter Cold Calling 17 May 2013 | 09:04 pm
Hello you! Thought I'd try posting this amusing and yet thought-provoking tale as a Storify piece. Let's give it a spin... [View the story "Twitter Promotion Vs Twitter Cold Calling" on Storify] W...
John Yorke's New Book. Plus: Win A Three-Day Course With Him! 18 Apr 2013 | 01:53 pm
Some writers worship at the altar of script structure, toiling over their inciting incidents and midpoints, while others go out of their way to shun that kind of thing. The latter bunch often worry t...
Love Them And Leave Them 27 Mar 2013 | 04:07 am
Been thinking about a bizarre contradiction in the way we writers need to work, throughout our careers. We have to choose projects which we properly love. Projects which mean something to us and whi...
Where Are We Now? March 2013 21 Mar 2013 | 01:15 am
This occasional new blog format was inspired by the mighty Warren Ellis, who semi-regularly posts Who I Am And Where To Find Me status updates over at his gaff. Although in my case, this exercise is ...
Thank You Utopia... 20 Feb 2013 | 07:58 pm
... for reminding me to write exactly what I want to write, instead of trying to second-guess what might slot into the current TV climate and landscape. It's a reminder we all need from time to time:...
