Category Archives: Random Writing Rambles
Do You Dare to be Yourself?
Do you have a love/hate relationship with your writing? Is your website lurking in a corner of the internet, unloved, unvisited, un-updated and un-promoted? When you look around at the marvellous and creative web efforts of others, do you ever … Continue reading
Finding Your Writing Process
A lot has been written about the process of writing – how you go from initial glimmer of an idea to the final draft – and for good reason. It’s one of the things that most bugs new writers, and … Continue reading
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Should You Write Every Day?
Photo by jking89 Should you write when you don’t want to? Everyone’s heard the advice to write every day. I’ve even repeated it to writers myself, but I’m wondering if it’s really good advice after all. Most writers start out … Continue reading
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First Drafts – Patchwork Writing
I’ve just read a post on Holly Lisle’s Talysmana site regarding first drafts and the writing process, which has sparked off a few thoughts of my own. One of the hardest things in writing, or learning to write, is learning … 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