Noowhatsits? 5 Brain Boosting Supplements For Writers
I debated whether or not to write about this, but I always think it’s better to have more information rather than less. Nootropics are a class of drugs and supplements which are used as “brain boosters” or cognitive enhancers depending on who you’re talking to. They range from the very mild and very common [...]
Writing What You Don’t Know
When you’re a writer you’ll hear the words “write what you know” more than almost anything else*…but is it good advice? Sadly the answer is, as always, “it depends”. It depends on whether or not you take the advice literally and write only what you know in real life or if you decide to use [...]
Borrowing From Mythology
One of the defining aspects of humanity is that we like telling stories. We tell stories to entertain each other, to teach each other and to scare each other. We’ve been doing it since Thag The Caveman told Zog The Caveman a story about the mystical god of giving Thag all the meat. Fortunately the [...]
Do You Need An Agent in 2012?
This is becoming a tough question to answer. If Doctor Who showed up in the TARDIS and whisked you and I back even three years I’d have said yes, you absolutely need an agent if you want a career as a writer. These days there are definite ways to make it without one. Perhaps a [...]
10 Hand to Hand Combat Myths That Writers Need To Stop Using
I like writing about fighting, it’s one of the few things I know a bit about. The one downside of knowing a bit about fighting is that when a writer who doesn’t tries to sound knowledgeable but doesn’t do their research the mistakes really stand out in the fight scenes. Here are ten of the [...]
Twelve People You Should Be Following on Twitter
Hi everyone, I’m absolutely crazy busy today sorting out wedding stuff and (theoretically) writing. So instead of telling you my completely unfounded theories on writing, I thought I’d tell you who I look up to in the writing world and how to find them on Twitter. This is by no means a complete list and [...]
Andrew Update 2012
As some of you know I had a bit of crapsack 2011…but I have to say that 2012 has started off extremely well. I am yet to be eaten by a bear. Some consider this inevitable and I am glad to have been able to prove them wrong again. That said, no promises for February. [...]
Is Now The Best Time Ever To Be A Writer?
Depending on who you ask, we’re either living in a writerly utopia where we dance hand in hand with Amazon over fields sown with royalty cheques or we’re witnessing the end of publishing and fleeing Amazon as it realises its destiny as an eldritch abomination that wants all the good books to be sold for [...]
5 Ways Bad Reviews Can Help You
If you’ve ever had your work out in the public domain, you’ve almost certainly garnered yourself a bad review or two. These can range from professional reviews that question valid problems with your work to ranting, frothing diatribes that question everything from your parentage to your humanity. And it sucks. A bad review can make [...]
12 Basic Writing Mistakes I’ve Made and How To Avoid Them
1. Trying to write two books at once This pretty much never works. Very rarely you will hear about a professional author writing two books at once, but in my experience what they’re actually doing is writing one book while editing the other. A big part of why this is a problem is that it [...]
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