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; Today’s post of mine is over at SFNovelists. It’s about what makes a successful writer, and when you should give up if you never manage to get published. As Satima has pointed out over there on that blog, there … Continue reading
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Via Cheryl’s Mewsings, I found this from Guy Gavriel Kay, one of my favourite writers: Are novelists entitled to use real-life characters? He makes the distinction between peopling fiction with real people as background, and using them as point of … Continue reading
But see, I have hit the 5% completed!Next few days are going to be slower still, I think. Younger daughter has gone back to LA, and older daughter not back yet – so I am still in charge of one … Continue reading
John Scalzi had a blog post on this subject two days back. Basically he was saying in answer: nothing much. Give up an hour’s TV (or internet surfing or gaming or similar), 5 days a week, and you can write … Continue reading
..Today’s blog post from me you can find here over on SFnovelists. Poke around while you’re there. It’s the hangout for a bunch of cool authors, covering the genre from hard sf to urban paranormal… … Continue reading
My editor required some minor alterations to the MS before it goes to copy edit (this isbook 2, Stormlord Rising, that I am talking about). Trouble is, they necessitate re-reading and tweaking the whole MS. And believe me, after so … Continue reading
Yesterday was the 1st of July.And I said I was going to start writing book 3 on July 1st, 1,500 words at least every day.But – that’s me on the left, the squashed rabbit with a load of work on … Continue reading
I have not exactly been keeping up with the blogging very well. I am not at my computer as much lately. I intend to start writing book 3 of The Watergivers trilogy (i.e. the Stormlord cycle) on July 1st and … Continue reading
Actually, I don’t know.But I was listening to a TED talk the other day on what makes a successful person, and I reckon what makes a published writer is pretty much the same 8 things as that speaker mentioned: 1. … Continue reading
PART ONE I had an email from someone some time ago, which I didn’t reply because I was so busy, but it deserves an answer. In fact, the problem is so universal for first time novelists that I decided to … Continue reading