Nurturing the spark (or not)
There are teachers and then there are teachers. Never the twain shall meet.
There are teachers and then there are teachers. Never the twain shall meet.
So an update on my first NaNoWriMo. We’re just finishing day 14. If you’re on track, writing 1,667 words a
I’ve never done NaNoWriMo (and don’t want to have to type that name a lot – too many caps!). I’ve
Have you ever been so disgusted with a book — the story, the editing, the whatever — that you’ve felt
The hardest thing for a new writer to do is to walk away from a sale. I should know, I just did it.
Every writer is told to ‘build a platform’ (get your audience started) before publishing. How do you do that? Well,
Everyone knows Dune (you do, don’t you? If not, why are you here?), and if you’ve even given this blog
Lian Hern writes a good tale here, but not a great one. She sets it in a fictional medieval Japan,
So the buzz this morning is that a number of people are leaving theatres after seeing The Martian, believing that
I’m at a bit of a crossroads with the novel I’m writing (hereafter referred to as WiP – short for