One thousand a day. That’s all I ask!
It’s funny because I think it was Elizabeth George, in her excellent book about writing (Write Away), who first told me that I should set a word count goal for myself and see that I met it everyday, and I […]
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It’s funny because I think it was Elizabeth George, in her excellent book about writing (Write Away), who first told me that I should set a word count goal for myself and see that I met it everyday, and I […]
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Rupert and the Erstwhile Flibbertygibbet Worms! Worms Too! How I ate Breakfast and Went to Work Halitosis and Heartbreak How important is a good title? Are these good titles? I don’t know. I just culled them at random from Amazon’s […]
Are you like me? Do you find these acronyms sort of annoying? Can you just not be bothered to write lol on your emails to make your point clear? I tend towards a sarcastic sense of humor which does not […]
It’s been brought to my attention that there is some weird thing happening when you try to leave comments on the blog. Sorry about that. It’s not you, it’s the site. Please be patient and we’ll have it figured out […]
If this seems like a contradiction, read on and I will explain. I believe that even when I am doing other things such as washing dishes, enjoying a movie or staring off into space, part of my brain is still […]
What a dazzling new talent this is! Shall I tell you something which will mortify my daughter in the future? Ok, I will and not just because it may alleviate some of the vengeful feelings I’ve been having towards her […]
Writers are like magpies. Our eye gets caught by something sparkly, we hop on over to take a closer look and if we like what we see then we grab it in our beak and take it home to our […]
This is about my Work In Progress not whips.This is not that sort of blog. So I’m steaming along on my new thang and feeling pretty good about my 25,000 words or so, and my generally-outlined next few chapters, but […]
Adverbs get a bad rap. It’s easy to over-use them. You can just stick one in after a verb and it explains exactly what you mean. No worries about showing motivation or developing character through careful use of actions and […]