“It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up[…]
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Yours truly … on a camel
Yes, that’s me. On a camel. Right beside the Pyramids. The camel’s name was California, which I reckon that was[…]
Read moreQuote: John Keats
“The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children… I do[…]
Read moreQuote: Joe Konrath, Publishing is a lottery
No matter how talented you are, no matter how hard working, no matter how awesome and committed your publisher might[…]
Read moreWhat writers need to do …
… what we need to do is simply write fun and entertaining books and get them out. The next book[…]
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 more“A little lesbian joke …”
The Bechdel test — sometimes called the Bechdel-Wallace test — began as “a little lesbian joke in an alternative feminist[…]
Read moreContext is everything! Cats and dogs in the Bible
I spotted this quote in a magazine this week … “The dog is mentioned in the Bible 18 times —[…]
Read moreImaginary friends …
Publish. A lot!
Publish. A Lot: For those of you who have spent 10 years writing your last book I have news for[…]
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