10 Writing FAQS
I was thinking about the writing podcasts, blogs and books I read and it occurred to me that there is a lot of repetition of the same questions over and over. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing; sometimes we just need to hear the same thing from several different places before it sinks in. So [...]
How Much Should You Write Each Day?
How much do you write each day? Do you write a little every single day or do you save it up for epic six hour binges where you inexplicably grow a beard at hour three and acquire a .357 Magnum at hour five? I try to write every day but it doesn’t always work [...]
Learn From my Fail: Empty Worlds
In my early works of fiction you could have been forgiven for mistaking my urban fantasy for some kind of dystopian fantasy where 99% of the population had been wiped out by a horrific virus that left no trace of the victims in the physical world or the memories of those left behind*. The [...]
Eight Reasons Your Self Published Novel Won’t Sell
Self publishing seems to be the way to go these days, at least initially.* Tales of main stream publishers waiting to see how a book does as a self published work before offering representation aren’t myths, and I strongly suspect we’re seeing the start of a new method of publishing for everyone: Self publish first, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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