Go Hard or Go Home vs Softly Softly

Writing advice online. There’s a ton of it out there, and seeing as I’m not writing a book at present, I thought I’d spend some time looking at it. Talk about falling down the rabbit hole! I think I lost a week or two. (What year is this?) But it was...

Are you a Proper Writer? (Part II)

Last week I was talking about what you think a Proper Writer does. Who they are, what they do, how they live, and especially, what characteristics make them a Writer. Inside everyone who writes there lives a Stereotypical Writer, and that’s who we were defining...

The different sides of stuck

You know how I like to talk about ‘stuck’? Well I’m going to be doing it again today. Feel free to go and potter amongst other posts if you’ve never felt the particular horror of your hands paralysed on your keyboard, brain in a total...

Timelines, deadlines and kindness

So! You’re writing and that’s great. You even have a date you want to finish by. A deadline! But. What happens when you stop? Have you ever had your writing gradually peter out over the course of a week, or maybe two, leaving you to feel like inspiration...

How to know your own voice

A lot of space is given to discussions of voice whenever writers gather. We talk about how to find our authentic voice, how each of us has a unique voice, and how our voice is important – a reflection of our gift to our readers. Our voice as our expression in...