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One evening, many years ago, I was in a room listening to someone describe an event in their lives. This person was a known compulsive...

The practice of writing at its best can be full of enthusiasm for life. When writers are at the top of their game, they want to play at...

Being a writer who wants to achieve viability and a long-term career means you are a ‘business’, defined as ‘the activity of making one's...

I wanted to share a couple of personal experiences in order to try and help put the current coronavirus crisis in context. The first is a...

How much time as a writer should you spend sorting out all this back material concerning your role, purpose and organisation? It boils...

Okay, so let’s say that you have been carefully following this series on writing an Author Prospectus and have thoroughly done every...

What follows are only rough estimates: precise figures will vary from author to author, genre to genre, circumstance to circumstance. But...

What are you actually going for with your writing? It’s a blunt question, but if you can answer it you’re at the heart of the Author...

Earlier in this series we took a look at who your readers might be and tried to nail down some details, including their age, gender, and...