What's in a name?
Not long ago, I shared a plane journey with a woman who was heading to Haiti to continue charity work with the victims of the terrible earthquake in 2010. Hundreds of…
Category: Writing
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The final word… on pitching your story.
I think it was the great Ray Bradbury who said a story has three parts – the writer, the story itself and the audience. A story has not fulfilled its function until…
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The Character's Journey
The second part of Michael Hauge’s brilliant workshop was on the character arc. Talking about the main character – hero or heroine – or if there are two equal main characters…
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It's about story-telling, whatever your genre
Watching movies as work – now that’s something I can really get behind. It’s not procrastination – it’s research. Even better – it’s homework. I recently had the chance to attend a…
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The accidental knitter
A funny thing happened a couple of months ago – I became a knitter. It started like this…. I was in Canada, looking for a birthday present for a friend of mine…
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To boldly go… errr… go boldly?
Here’s a bit of a confession – I am a Science Fiction nut. (OK – the Twilight Zone Blog back in November was probably a bit of a hint). It’s therefore not…
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Some things you never grow out of…
I’m currently writing a section of my new book set at an outback race meeting, and a thought occurred to me… every book I’ve written has horses in it somewhere. I decided…
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If heaven is a library….
At a recent event, I was lucky enough to hear a reading from Audrey Niffenegger – author of The Time Traveler’s Wife. She read a short story – written in response to…