Writing and Sharing

When I started writing I made the decision to review every book I finished, and I’ve stuck to that thinking I could hardly expect readers to review my books if I wasn’t willing to put the same effort into those I read. I spotted a superb 1-star review for The Joker the other day, I […]

I think writing wisdom states that you should write every day. I see and hear this advice given everywhere. It makes sense. It builds and keeps you in the writing habit and, particularly if you have a large project on, such as a novel, it keeps you chipping away at the word count. I have […]

I listened to episode 175 of the Stark Reflections on Writing and Publishing podcast the other day. Mark Lefebvre’s guest was Philippa A Werner and they discussed her writing and ScribeCount, a sales analysis platform for authors. Whilst listening I signed up to this platform which was straightforward then seamlessly set up my account which […]

I’m not sure where the week goes but it certainly seems to race round when it come to me trying to write my blog post for each Monday. I had no idea what I was going to write this week but then thought I’d mention the challenge I’m setting myself through November, again. Yes, it’s […]

  Anyone who is around me when I’m writing will know I hate the first draft phase. It is always such a relief to have finished that and hopefully have the basic story down, with most of the bits generally in the right order. They will also know that conversely I love editing. I take […]

Independent authors talk about their books being exclusive or wide. But what does it mean? Well, exclusive means that you have published your digital books exclusively with Amazon (your paperbacks can continue to be distributed wherever you like). For doing this you get to tick the box which lets you into the KDP Select programme […]

  I have heard about head-hopping, seen other authors discussing it on blogs and whatnot but had never had to consider it, until now. Everything I’ve published to date has been written in the first person so viewpoint was consistent, and one less thing to deal with. But then I started this current draft and […]

Coming up with the names for my characters is always an issue for me. It takes me ages and is often dependent on how I feel about any person with that name that I’ve met in the past. I’m always indecisive about the ones I choose for my characters and during a first draft they […]

I have never given any thought to my chapter headings. Consequently, I have gone about as basic as you can go – Chapter 1, not even Chapter One. And I wonder if I should change that? I have a client who has always named each of his chapters. Actually he puts a number first and […]