If you’re writing to communicate, you need to make sure the reader understands what you’re communicating. This starts with knowing what you want to say – and ends with how…
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Ahh, trashy reads… When life gets messy – or virus- and lockdown-ridden – a trashy read is equivalent to eating an entire chocolate bar. There may not be lots of…
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What is Bookstagram? Where can I find it? Why is the ‘B’ capitalised? … I don’t know the answer to that last question. Actually, I don’t even know if it…
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If your first line isn’t a winner it can be a deal-breaker. So, in other words, either really good or really bad. I tend to write my blog posts off…
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I’m a writer. I write to organise my thoughts, or process them, and because I enjoy it. Life gets busy though, and my writing routine tends to fall off the…
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There are plenty of writers’ quotes out there taken from their books, but what about writers’ quotes about writing? Is that a confusing sentence? It is, isn’t it? Don’t worry…
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Have you ever read a book that you didn’t know whether you liked or not? That you didn’t know how to rate on Goodreads? I have. I definitely have. In…
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This month I spoke at an MPavilion event hosted by Kim from Archemist in the Making. I think the live reading is going to be made into a video or…
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It’s that stage of the creative process again – when I learn so much about writing that I don’t feel like I can continue editing my novel until I’ve done…
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You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. No, I’m not talking about a past-relationship I didn’t appreciate – I’m talking about libraries. But I’ve already written about why…