World Book Day 2012
Happy World Book Day! A day to celebrate books and reading (I know I’m preaching to the converted here, fellow writers, but you can help spread the word!), a day of free books for children, and a day to try…
Steven
Born 1984 – Photographed 2012
Another day, another photo shoot…I know, the life of a high profile aspiring author is tougher than it sounds. This week Sunday was a day of posing in graveyards and trees, graves and tombs, a typical Sunday morning for any…
Writing prompts
Whether you love them or hate them writing exercises can be good for those times when the words just won’t flow. Maybe you’re starting a new project and have no idea what to write about, maybe you’re stuck on an…
I Heart You…
A beautiful red heart, on display gleaming and shining…a gift. Nope, not a Valentines Day card…an actual heart, bloody and dripping and still beating – ripped from the chest of an unsuspecting victim. Who needs love and romance when you…
Writing Fit
I couldn’t help but think whilst walking home today, that writing is a lot like exercise…bear with me, folks. If you don’t keep up to writing then you lose the muscles that allow you to create and construct worlds and…
Featured Author: Patsy Collins
Patsy Collins is another one of my wonderful Movember donators, and as her reward for being so kind I’m here to ask you all – please find some time to check out her website. Patsy writes…a lot, in fact not…
Why do you write?
A writer friend posed an interesting question on her blog yesterday. Why do you write? Simple I thought, and began to type up my reply. Then I realised it wasn’t that simple, there was no definitive answer, nothing I could…
Researching the real world
I like to use a little bit of the real world in my novels every now and again. Not only does it give my stories a little bit of authenticity, it also allows me to plan in a way that’s…
National Libraries Day
Today is National Libraries Day! A day dedicated to those big rooms full of hundreds of books…no, not my office, those bigger buildings with vast shelves of fiction, non-fiction, and a multitude of various research materials. If you have the…