3 for 2 on Valentine’s Day cards
I entered this piece for February’s Right Left Write short story competition run by Queensland Writers Centre. It’s been a few weeks now since the deadline so I think I’m…
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26 March 2024
5 Essential Books For Aspiring Authors
Here are five books that I read when I started to write seriously. They are all superb in their own way. I won’t say that these books saved my life,…
19 March 2024
5 Useful Character Flaws For Writers
I’ve started to attend a few writers groups and conferences, and inevitably I’ve met other writers. There was no avoiding it. They were there and I was there, and I…
5 March 2024
How Personal Should Your Blog Be?
How personal should your blog be? I’m a horrendous over-sharer so this is something I’ve wrestled with with during my blog writing life. I’m tempted to post acres of private…
27 February 2024
Belated 2024 Writing Goals
I recently attended a day workshop on planning for the year at Queensland Writer Centre. I very much enjoyed it, in part because it was the first time I’d met…
13 February 2024
5 Blogs I’ve Written And 10 Things I’ve Learnt
I’ve been blogging for years on and off. It’s how my writing expressed itself for the longest time, and it’s only recently that I’ve finally leaned into my enjoyment of…
6 February 2024
Rejection Sensitivity And Beta Readers
Update: Softening came back from beta read and I took the feedback a lot better than I though I would. My feeling was of gratitude rather than horror. This post…
23 January 2024
Killing The Dog: When To Cut Scenes From Your Novel
Removing scenes from your novel is tough. I’m currently editing the second draft of my first novel Softening. I want to remove ten percent of the first draft to sharpen…
2 January 2024
11 Things To Do In Your Novel’s Second Draft
I’m currently doing a second draft edit for my first novel ‘Softening’. I’m finding the second draft harder work that the first. The process of my initial draft suited my…
26 December 2023
How I’m Going To Write My First Novel
This is how I'm going to write my first novel. It’s all rather unproven, but this is what I’m intending to do. The structure of the drafting process is based…
6 December 2023