Category Archives: Fiction Writing
Getting Over the Writing Blues
Following on from the ‘secretive’ post, I did a little hard thinking and decided I needed to get myself out of that kind mindset. I suppose we all have crises of confidence at some point. Maybe it’s the time of … Continue reading
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
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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
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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