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I get inspiration constantly. It is all around us every day and you just have to know how to listen or see the ideas. As I’ve said in a previous post, I always have a notebook on me. I find this essential as some of the best ideas come from every day events. I am… Continue reading My Current Tools for Inspiration

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.Anne McCaffrey My secondary main character is Matt Harris, who meets Grace early in the story. Matt is two years older than Grace and is an only child in his family. He… Continue reading Introducing: Matt Harris

I’ve been quite busy over the past few weeks. My birthday was on the 13th of Feb and I’ve been to a few events and celebrations for it. I enjoy getting out and celebrating and living life – unfortunately, it’s hard to keep on top of writing while going out. I don’t usually have a… Continue reading Taking a Break For Celebrations

I thought it was appropriate to read this again as I prepare to binge-watch the TV series for the third time (if you haven’t watched it, you should go watch it now). A Discovery of Witches follows the tale of Diana Bishop, an alchemy professor at Oxford University. Diana is a witch who descends from… Continue reading Review Time: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Pexels Free Images Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.Virginia Woolf If you’re anything like me, ideas bounce around in your head constantly and your attention is consistently divided between multiple projects. I have four going at the moment – I’m writing… Continue reading 10 Tips to Juggling Multiple Writing Commitments

I think it's hard to have a full-time job and write fiction, but for essays, you need to be in the world.Sloane Crosley Writing when you have to support yourself can be tough. Making it big is the dream, but you need to make ends meet in the meantime. Working a full-time job while aspiring… Continue reading Tips to Writing With a Full-Time Job

Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.John Steinbeck When I write, I use so many different techniques and softwares. I find that different programs liven the writing up for me and I always need a notebook… Continue reading Tips and Tricks for Getting Writing Done

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.Tiffany Madison Editing is hard. It really has been destroying me these past few months. So much energy is expended editing and re-editing and re-writing. It really is a prison for… Continue reading Come With me Behind the Scenes… to the Editing Process

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. Ernest Hemingway Designing characters is always a complex and rewarding process. You have to understand everything about them as a person – their likes, dislikes, hobbies, background… there’s nothing you can leave out. Personally, I find it… Continue reading Introducing: Grace Nakamura

I was bitten by the travel bug in 2011. It infected me and now I must live with the consequences of being bitten by this bug: I travel almost every single year since the incident. Although the affliction has seriously affected me, I find that it’s enhanced my writing and I can write from so… Continue reading The Travel Bug Has Affected Me Deeply