On Writing – Rereading Jane Eyre

#MondayBlogs ‘Write from the heart’ #WritingTips @BathFlashAward #FlashFiction

I was recently browsing the Bath Flash Awards website when I came across an interview with this edition’s (March-June 2019) Flash Fiction Award Judge, Christopher Allen. You can read the whole interview here. It was the final question and answer that has mesmerised me all weekend. I quote the question and answer here: Any finalContinue reading “#MondayBlogs ‘Write from the heart’ #WritingTips @BathFlashAward #FlashFiction”

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How to Write a #Novel #MondayBlogs

How I write: A Descriptive (not Prescriptive) account of my Writing Process A. Mulling: The Creative Phase Before I actually start my formal planning, laid out below, I’ve been thinking of my novel, talking to my characters, and outlining loosely, for months, or even years… I’ve ‘seen’ what will occur, how it will begin andContinue reading “How to Write a #Novel #MondayBlogs”

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How to find time to write a novel, with help from Stephen King

I prefer reading to writing. That’s only natural. It’s easier and more enjoyable to read. Someone else has done all the hard work and you just lap it up and enjoy. No wonder my favourite moment of the day is curling up on my armchair with my kindle, preferably by the fireplace, with a cupContinue reading “How to find time to write a novel, with help from Stephen King”

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Which books should writers read?

Writers need to read beyond our comfort zone, and branch out to embrace genres and styles we don’t normally approach, because otherwise we run the risk of becoming self-absorbed. Reading works we wouldn’t normally consider widens our perspective, improves our style, and opens windows to other ways of telling different kinds of stories. We needContinue reading “Which books should writers read?”

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“Writing: often it is the only thing between you and impossibility.”

Originally posted on The Daily Post:
Writing often it is the only thing between you and impossibility. no drink, no woman’s love, no wealth can match it. nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing. the hordes from closing in. it blasts the darkness. writing is the ultimate psychiatrist, the kindliest…