New prompt available! If you want to use the prompt, all I ask is that you include a link to this entry and a credit to me for the photograph, and that you post a link to your story in the comments box below so I can see what you’ve come up with! If you […]
Writing Tips
NaNoWriMo 2011
It’s coming up to that time of year when the blogosphere threatens to implode under the weight of NaNoWriMo posts. Are you doing it? Are you giving it a miss? Do you think it’s the worst thing to happen to fiction since Stephanie Meyer? I did my first NaNoWriMo in 2008 and wrote the first […]
Photo Prompt 53
New prompt available! If you want to use the prompt, all I ask is that you include a link to this entry and a credit to me for the photograph, and that you post a link to your story in the comments box below so I can see what you’ve come up with! If you […]
I Had A Dream
If you’re anything like me, your heart will sink whenever you hear the words, “I had this weird dream, right?” By their very nature, dreams are weird since they don’t follow the same narrative logic as conscious thought. The apparently illogical nature of the dream is the bedrock of Surrealism – the movement would not […]
Photo Prompt 52
New prompt available! If you want to use the prompt, all I ask is that you include a link to this entry and a credit to me for the photograph, and that you post a link to your story in the comments box below so I can see what you’ve come up with! If you […]
My Writing Process
As I said in my post about writing historical fiction, a few people asked me questions on Twitter about The Guns of Retribution. As it comes out in paperback on Saturday, I thought I’d answer a few more. Writer Emma Kerry asked me about my writing process, and how the story grew, so I thought […]
