You can achieve your writing dreams
Welcome to this month’s newsletter! What does every would-be writer need to achieve their dreams? You would probably say: time and space. Yet writers have created great literature in half [...]
Monday Motivation: Here’s an addiction worth cultivating
I often contemplate the power of habitual behaviour. I observe it daily in our cats. One habitually sits with his front paws – I tend to think of them as his hands – resting neatly on his curled [...]
The art of writing great scenes
The building blocks of drama We all recognize the scenario. We’ve got the story – or at least the beginning and the end – in our heads. We know our characters. But now we have to start, to [...]
Writing Secrets: There’s a time to write and a time … to contemplate
There is a time when writing requires contemplation for ideas to coalesce. To write you need sometimes to daydream; to allow your thoughts to roam aimlessly. But this is dangerous territory. When [...]
Monday Motivation: Oh what stories you could tell
Were you anticipating the new year with any relish? We usually do look forward to the new year with some degree of excited anticipation. The world conspires to encourage us to do so. It’s the [...]
Writing Secrets: Keep staring at the screen
Stare at the screen. That’s my advice for the week. I know, holidays are over, we’re all back at work and now we’re faced with the reality of those good intentions. And … your mind is blank. You [...]
Monday Motivation: A single, simple premise
I haven’t seen Lady Bird, winner of one of the top awards at the Golden Globes last night, but I have read the script – and one of its features confirms something we have always said about [...]
Writing Secrets: The new year’s promise
I keep hearing people say they disapprove of new years’ resolutions. They believe it sets them up for failure and causes disillusion and self-hatred. You know that gym membership…? Only kidding, [...]
