Sorry Kithara
I’m having doubts that Kithara was a good idea, I’ve had doubts from the moment I clicked publish, actually. I know what I want to write, but it feels familiar to me, like maybe it’s a rip off of...
View ArticleAnthologies
If an unpublished writer sent an anthology of short stories to either a publisher or an authors agent, would that be too presumptuous? I am thinking about compiling about twenty short stories in my own...
View ArticleOld to new fairytale
I think I have finally lost my marbles, given the idea I’ve had about a fairy-tale; I’ve though up my own dark fantasy version of Jack and the Beanstalk and this idea is so great and exciting for me...
View ArticleWriting style and narratives
Many new writers write in a first person narrative; this is very limiting and produces problems if they want to include other characters opinions and viewpoints. The main character of a story isn’t...
View Articlerecent issues
Having second thoughts about taking up NaNoWriMo, I struggle with 250 words a day these days, let alone trying to squeeze in 50,000 in a month – reason? Migraines, frequent for months now, also I’ve...
View ArticleRigorous planning
I have been going through some rigorous planning of a rather complicated storyline for the last couple of weeks and it has almost consumed me; I’ve drawn up maps and personality profiles of the places...
View ArticleA writer’s thoughts
I have read somewhere in the past, that you are what you read and I believe that. The more I read the more defined my tastes have become, my skills, my genre leanings and this influences my writing and...
View ArticleRealise you are published if you have a blog
Just sit and write if you want to be a writer. Guess what? When you publish anything on your blog you are a published writer, did you know that? As stupid as it sounds, I never knew this until a...
View ArticleWriter losing her mojo
We all have heard the saying that “writers write as simple as that” and it is really is as simple as that, but most don’t actually do it as regularly as they should or at least believe they should....
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