Getting The Order Right
Working my way through the latest anthology submissions, I’m noticing something interesting: a significant number of writers have...
A Writing Calendar
If you’re fortunate enough to be in a position where you can concentrate on your writing full-time, all year round, then this calendar...
A Different Way of Doing Things Part Seven: Who's Orbiting Who?
As a writer striving to get published and/or get your self-published work out there into the marketplace, you probably spend a great deal...
Learn what a story really is...
Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...
A Different Way of Doing Things Part Six: Finding the Motherlode
We’ve been looking at the idea of you having a shop which sold your fiction. Not a bookshop featuring books by other authors — just your...
A Different Way of Doing Things Part Five: An Analogy
You probably have a favourite brand of coffee shop. It’s the one that you like to come across while shopping in a mall or on the high...
A Different Way of Doing Things Part Four: A Business Mentality
We’ve been talking about looking at what you’re doing as a writer as though you were a business. The usual immediate reaction to that is...
A Different Way of Doing Things... Part Three: Process
Writing and reading are processes. That might sound obvious to you, but 17 years as a teacher taught me that it isn’t obvious to many....