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Sometimes Flashback Is The Answer 3 Sep 2012 | 10:06 am
I'm not a fan of flashback. It too often means the story stops dead because flashback is essentially dealing with stuff that's already happened, so there's no suspense about what's to come. New writ...
How Much Does Good Grammar and Spelling Matter? 24 Aug 2012 | 10:56 am
Writing is all about communication. Grammar and spelling matter because they make communication easier. When grammar and spelling are correct the reader reads exactly what you intended them to read....
Untitled 23 Aug 2012 | 10:01 am
My life at the moment is busy. I've got deadlines to hit in my writing life, at home there's one house move done, another imminent. In short, my time is being squeezed. It's been an interesting expe...
Untitled 22 Aug 2012 | 03:36 pm
There is a joke in my family that should my sister offer to make you a cup of tea it is best to decline. First of all she can't bear to wait for the kettle to boil and secondly she can not wait for t...
Re-Writing Before There's Cash On The Table 17 Aug 2012 | 01:51 pm
Scenario: You've written and re-written and polished your book. You've got feedback. You've re-written and re-polished. You've sent the manuscript out. An agent likes it but makes suggestions for...
Incomplete Sentences. Are. Irritating. 16 Aug 2012 | 01:49 pm
I'm reading An Equal Stillness by Francesca Kay, which won the Orange Award for New Writers. I'm enjoying it in a slightly abstracted way as I keep on getting pulled up by her fondness for sentences ...
4 Ways to The Perfect Title 15 Aug 2012 | 04:46 am
1. Look at other titles in the same area. With Adultery for Beginners, I had in mind Carol Clewlow's book A Woman's Guide to Adultery, which I thought was a brilliant title. I wanted something like t...
4th Place For Writers 14 Aug 2012 | 01:19 pm
Is the worse position in an Olympic final 4th place? So near to a place in the history books and the admiration on non-sportspeople and yet so far you might as well have come 8th. It's a bit like se...
Story Threading For Depth 13 Aug 2012 | 01:50 pm
One of the real joys about writing is when you write a section and realise that, without knowing it, you've set up the situation beforehand. I love it when that happens. But it doesn't always, and t...
Being An Olympic Writer 10 Aug 2012 | 01:07 pm
As Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Bath University I work with students on their essays. Many of those students are studying sports science or sports coaching, and several of the teams currently compet...
