Melanie 
There’s a great warm feeling that rushes through your veins when ‘finish’ your first draft. You type “The End”, print it out, get the satisfaction as you rap all the pages so they are all aligned and you clip it together to … What comes next? Lots of work. Lots. Sadly, if you intend to … Read more
Get your creative juices flowing by getting into the HABIT of writing regularly – daily or weekly is good. There are lots of writing prompt ideas around. Here’s one for you from Writers Digest: What In The World Did I Agree To? You had the best time at your New Year’s Eve party-such a good … Read more
Saw this quote and it made me chuckle. Sometimes it does feel that this is a practice that is very self-serving, much like some other things we do in private .. like closet drinking or sneak eating 🙂
As writers we agonise over our plot, our charaters, whether we’ve got the right dialogue, if we’re consistent in our timeline, and much much more. We think writing is difficult. And it is. And this is why it’s not: If we want to be published, there’s so much more to do and the true writer … Read more
It happens to the best of us. We burst headlong into a new project idea full of excitement, anticipation, hope. And then the nagging thoughts start to creep in. “What if I can’t do this?” “What if it’s no good?” “What if I got the plot wrong?” “This is sounding really boring” “Who would want … Read more
Came across this little video – well, it’s an hour long actually – but it seems to have a decent approach to writing. Note – this is not a quick and dirty cheat-sheet. Andrew goes through in a structured and thorough way. He claims to write a short story each week so he has some … Read more