Earlier this week, J K Rowling posted this on Twitter: Quite coincidentally, a couple of days earlier I’d just started[…]
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Tag: Practical advice
Four publishing lessons in four minutes
In 1995, my first novel, Telling Stories, won the Reed Fiction Award for the best unpublished novel. The prize was[…]
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5 Quotes from Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin is author of 21 Inspector Rebus novels along with 20 others. He’s also written plays, graphic novels, short[…]
Read more15 Famous Rejection Slips
Rejection slips are part of a writer’s landscape. All authors get them at one time or another, and they usually[…]
Read moreThe Lester Dent / Doc Savage Master Plot Method
Lester Dent was the real name of the author almost all of the Doc Savage novels. (They appeared under the[…]
Read moreWriting with a tomato
The Pomodoro Technique is a method of time-management many writers find useful. It was developed by Francesco Cirillo in the[…]
Read moreAdvice from J K Rowling
When J K Rowling spotted a Twitter comment from @beauty_jackson that read: “HEY! YOU! You’re working on something and you’re[…]
Read moreCheck your popularity with n-grams
Y’all know about n-grams, right? Wikipedia nails ’em: … an n-gram is a contiguous sequence of n items from a given[…]
Read moreLee Child on writing and research
A while back I asked Lee Child a question. Not in person, but via a Goodreads author promotion, and he[…]
Read moreBad writing for beginners
Toby Litt on bad writing: Bad writing is mainly boring writing. It can be boring because it is too confused[…]
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