Gold
Normally I tell people, no matter how bad your writing is, keep going. It’ll get better. In rare instances, this advice may not be correct. The link above is to Awful Library Books, a superb blog about weeding out the very worst things to grace the shelves of library’s everywhere. Awesome.
New Book Review of Janet Evanovich’s How I Write is Up!
I just put up a review of Janet Evanovich’s writing book, How I Write (written with Ina Yalof), it can be found here ready to please you.
When you’re too busy
“I’m way to busy to write right now. I’ll do some more writing next week.” Yeah, right… I’ve said that to myself many times, and every time I’ve utterly failed to write anything in the alloted time. The strange thing about being busy is that it follows you around like a hungry hyena. If you’re [...]
A quick pimping
Okay, so the title sounds dirty but I got your attention. I wanted to give a mention to an excellent writing blog I found today while ostensibly doing ‘research’ (reading twitter) by the name of Writer’s Remorse. Chock full of interesting articles and useful links, I fully recommend it. I got 1800 words out tonight. [...]
No sooner
I posted up the first free chapter yesterday and no sooner had I posted it up than I realised how to make it better. I am very aware I suffer from the endlessly re-written first chapter syndrome, but I’m going to go ahead and change it anyway. I got some amazingly positive feedback today and [...]
What’s with the name?
“So why Adverserial, don’t you know you’ve mis-spelled it?” This is becoming a common question (at least from the people in the same room as I am). Given that my blog is only an hour old I thought I’d better answer it. Adverserial represents both the relationship I have with writing (adversarial) and the way [...]
Welcome Aboard!
Welcome to Andrew Jack’s Writing Blog. I started this page because, like 82% of the human race I feel like I want to write a book. Not just any book though, no gardening books for me. I want to be a fiction writer. When I’ve told people this generally get encouraging nods, polite questions and [...]
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