Blog posts relating to writing, creating a novel, advice for writers, books for inspiration and everything literary.
The Remarkable Rise and Fall of Anthologies – Magazine Publishing The Remarkable Rise and Fall of Anthologies can be traced all the way back to the late 18th and early 19th Centuries. Short fiction became particularly popular in the 19th Century with the rise of magazines and the thirst for content. Early examples in England […]
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How to title your novel? This is a question that authors around the world struggle with every day. A few years ago, an idea for a book came to me based on the principle of a migraine, a visual migraine. For me, it was not a question of ‘How to title your novel’, it was
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Labels – what do they mean? Labels – what do they mean? We all use labels every day to describe ourselves and to describe others. I’m not saying we get up in the morning and state “today I will be a mum”, but we do identify with a label and sometimes allow the label to
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Mind Map Madness … the planning of my current work in progress. I have kept my promise to my family and stayed away from my next project until now! I’ve dusted off the planning sheet, which I actually wrote over two years ago, and am making this the basis for my next novel. The novel
Why Write? I have a background in policing having spent 20 years as a police officer so I fit into the category of where my job ‘required’ me to write. During my time on the beat, I was ‘required’ to write innumerable reports relating to many offences ranging from minor traffic infractions to theft and criminal damage
