To list or not to list
I’m an extreme ‘lister’. It’s like an addiction albeit a fairly healthy – even if a little OCD – addiction. I have lists for everything: writing, family management, meals, shopping, …
Novel writing: the hard slog
I’m more than midway through my second draft of my young adult climate change fiction novel and I feel like I’m climbing an enormous mountain. This is the hard slog. …
Editing non-fiction
Non-fiction writing is a fairly broad term and can include articles, essays, interview, manuals, profiles, reports and reviews. The purpose of it can be to instruct, record, persuade, enlighten, inform, …
Travel writing
Travel writing is a good way to earn money as a writer as many places publish them. Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going. Travel …
Writing food reviews
According to Ruth Reichl good reviews (whether food, travel, books or art) prepare the reader for the experience and the most important rule is to review what they are trying to do, not what …
Writing short stories (and editing them)
So you want to write a short story and get it published. Easy. Not many words. No worries. The reality is that this isn’t necessarily true. Johannes Jakob (of Lifted Brow, …
Writing reviews
Reviews can be short and to the point with a word count of approximately 100 words, or they can be long and detailed with a word count from 500 words …
Writing previews
Previewing films, shows, performance and exhibitions doesn’t need to be complicated. With the right tools, a clear and enticing preview can grab the reader’s attention and entice them in. First …
Are you an ereader or paper reader?
I know we are meant to be embracing this wonderful new technology, but I am struggling. A friend has lent me her ereader so I can read the next book …
A place to call home
A new blog? Why! I have been in the blogging business for a very long time and writing for even longer, but I felt that I needed to create a …