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Want To Win a Copy of Story Structure Demystified?

Want to win a copy of Larry Brooks’ book Story Structure – Demystified? All you have o do is leave a comment and tell me what the best bit of writing advice you’ve ever received was. It can be anything, a website, a blog a book or just good advice given face to face. I’ll [...]

Review of Story Structure – Demystified

I have new review up, and if you’re an author looking to make a living getting published, you need to check it out here. This is the first book I’ve given a 10/10 score to, because of the huge impact this one book can potentially have on your career.

Artistic Integrity vs. Being a Huge Jerk

I know writers who simply refuse to take criticism. Any correction beyond basic grammar correction results in dummies being spat, toys thrown out of the cot and a general wailing and gnashing of teeth. Normally I’d just write that kind of thing off as histrionics and figure these writers would grow out of it when [...]

Muh, or, what to do when you don’t want to do anything

Apathy. That’s the only word of this post I’ve typed in the last hour. I managed to hit an all time low on the motivation scale*. I have so very many things to do and I’m so overwhelmed by it all that I haven’t done anything. So, to get over it I’m trying something new; [...]

Review of 7th Son: Descent by J C Hutchins

Hi everyone, I have a new review up of J C Hutchin’s excellent book 7th Son: Descent. You can check out the full review right here.

The Upside of Time Off and The Downside of Being Dead

I took a few days off writing. I know this is one of the cardinal sins of NanoWrioMo, but it couldn’t be helped. It wasn’t personal tragedy, or even terrible work schedule that got me into trouble, it was lack of structure. As just about anyone who knows me can tell you, I’ve gotten pretty [...]

NanoWriMo Inspiration and an Update

I’m afraid last month, I was made of failure. I got just over 28,000 words. If I hadn’t been aiming for 50,000 then I would have called that a good month, but I fell off the writing wagon. I spent exactly one minute on self pity, then I let that go, because despite the fact [...]

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