Category: The writer’s life

A head in a bag

Twas the Festival of Writing last weekend, with a hey and ho and a hey nonny nonny. My highlights? Everything, really. It’s just like a…

Harry 13 September 2019

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The wriggle of life

An editorial colleague of mine here at Jericho Writers likes to tell writers that their first job as a novelist – literally the first thing…

Harry 30 August 2019

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Starting out as a writer, while in Full time employment – The other primary writing requisites.

So you have been bitten by the writers bug, my commiserations. Funny thing for a writer to say, but here’s why. You have a story…

chimerasaga 23 August 2019

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Can writers learn?

It’s a big question, isn’t it? Are you just given a quotient of natural talent at birth or can you take whatever tools you have…

Harry 23 August 2019

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Priorities

I just found out that, that money is about to be restricted. Not that we have enough to begin with… But more medical bills! It…

shelbylynnesullivan 20 August 2019

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When to break the rules in writing

The first time one of my Fiona Griffiths novels went to a copyeditor, no one had thought to check with me what I actually wanted…

Harry 16 August 2019

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How to market your book

I’m going to talk about marketing. That’s a conundrum for: Self-published authors, because if they don’t market their work, then no one else will. Traditionally…

Harry 9 August 2019

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The internal and the external

You all know about outer jeopardy and inner conflict, right? So if you have a protagonist with some great fear of spiders, you sort of…

Harry 26 July 2019

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The probable and the plausible

I watched a film on TV the other night. The film was Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario, a thriller dealing with the drugs trade on both sides…

Harry 19 July 2019

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Stick or Twist? Those first novel dilemmas

As it happens, it’s the Festival that gives me my entry to today’s topic. A few year’s back, our keynote speaker was the brilliant Antonia…

Harry 12 July 2019

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