REVIEW: The Survivalist Blog dot Net
Ever been in a blackout and had to hunt high and low for a candle and some matches? Or realised you have no food in but it’s a holiday and all the shops are shut? It’s a worrying moment verging…
Steven
Z is for Zanyism
Awooooga…barmy about backspacing, crazy for characters, dotty about dialogue, eccentric epigraphically, foolish with footnotes, goofy with grammar, habromanic about hyperbole, insane about italics, jargon-juiced, kookily knocking words out, loony for line spacing, manic about manuscripts, noggins full of names, obsessed…
Y is for Your own worst enemy
I’ve said it before during this year’s A-Z and I’ll say it again…you are your own worst enemy. You procrastinate, doubt yourself, and forget to write good storylines down. You hesitate and distrust yourself to the point of thinking you…
X is for Xenogamy
I know a few writers that shudder at the thought of taking on multiple genres or trying something new…thankfully I’m not one of them and I can embrace the thought of cross pollination within my work. I’m quite happy to…
W is for Writers? Who? What? Where? Why?
I’ve been rambling on for almost a month now about motivation, encouragement, and excuses. Most of the problems I’ve discussed are things I’ve come across when writing but now I want to hear what problems you face. What’s your UberGod of…
V is for Verbomania
Give me words over people any day! Words have the power to stir imaginations to implausible heights, in the right order they can create heroes, crumble empires, and ruin men. I shouldn’t have to tell you this, as writers you…
U is for Underdog
It’s easy to feel like a small fish in a big pond, especially when you ARE a small fish in a big pond! There are thousands of writers out there with more influence, more time and resources, the ones with…
T is for Throw away your television
Goggle box, boob tube, small screen, opiate of the masses, pictocube, or if you have kids…the babysitter – whatever you call your television I think we can agree that it’s a love/hate relationship for writer’s and their idiot boxes. Some have managed…
S is for Someday
Someday is a word I hear (and use) far too much. A fictional day sometime in the future where we’ll all sit down and crank out that novel that’s been lingering around, half-finished, on our hard drives for far too…