A very long round up

I’ve been keeping an eye on bookish and writer-oriented sites for a while with a view to a weekly round up. This week, I’m kicking off with a bumper post, co...

Discipline and publish

I try to use most of the practices I have been researching and writing about here, at least until they hit the ‘it’s not for me’ pile. So it makes sense to d...

Theme and Foreshadowing

I attended a workshop last night. Every two weeks this group gets together to analyse two or three chapters submitted by members of the group. As usual...

Embrace your Inner Zombie

At a workshop recently the discussion turned, as it does, to our productivity. One participant bemoaned her own output. She needed to be in the right m...

Hello! How do you do?

This my the eleventh post. Now, according to the arbitrary rules I have set myself, I am allowed to say some things about this blog and about myself. F...

The spam machine

Vern Emery sounds to me like the kind of man who might drive a pocket Audi sports car. He’s cut and pressed in clean lines and he sits three inches fro...

Bzzzt! Ding! Write

I was discussing my ten minute technique with some friends last week. One of them asked whether it was hard to get into the right state of mind to write for...