Monthly Archives: January 2010
100 Stories Needed To Help Haiti
Fund-raisers are calling for urgent short story submissions to help raise money for disaster-stricken Haiti. Out of the submissions, one hundred pieces of fiction will be chosen to appear in an e-book, proceeds of which will go to the Red … Continue reading
Word Pictures
We’ve all heard the saying about a picture being worth a thousand words, but I wonder how true that is. I’ve been thinking about the opposite just lately – that’s to say, not pictures being worth the words, but pictures … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction Writing, Random Writing Rambles
Tagged characterisation, Fiction Writing
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Do you admit to being a writer?
Photo by The Marmot I read something, somewhere, about the need to define yourself as a writer both inwardly, in your own mind, and outwardly, when talking to other people about what you do. I used to think that was … Continue reading
Posted in NonFiction Writing, Random Writing Rambles
Tagged creative writing, Fiction Writing
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Scrivener and The Pale Ones
The Pale Ones are now in Scrivener and I’m faced with the task of organising the scenes and getting to grips with the story again. Since the end of nano I’ve done very little fiction writing. Not because I didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction Writing, NaNoWriMo, Scrivener, Writing Diary
Tagged creative writing, Fiction Writing, NaNoWriMo, novel, Scrivener
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Writing? Why?
Sometimes it feels like writing is more of a curse than a blessing. Not that writing really is a curse, of course, but sometimes it feels like it. You know what I mean. You get up in the morning and … Continue reading