Story Ideas
Question of the day: How do you come up with story ideas? My ideas are mainly sparked by random things. A word, an image, a conversation…it could be anything, it’s that random. Just recently, I visited Holkham Hall a gorgeous estate in Norfolk and I returned home with...
Happy New Year!
A Happy New Year! Well, with everything going on in the world, it’s been quite an uncertain festive period. However, I hope you've managed to keep safe and continue to do so. I'm buzzing with excitement because when one year ends, another one begins...like they say,...
A new project
What is the hardest part of starting a new project? For me: 📘Getting Started 📘Planning (because I'm really a pantser) 📘Believing in the project With 2021 coming to an end and a new year coming up, I've been reflecting a great deal on my...
One word hook
A while back I asked some authors on Insta the following question: How would you describe your book/story/WIP using only one word? It's not easy coming up with one word for (+-80k) words of text, but the authors were awesome. Check their answers below, and my...
Revisions! Revisions!
Ah, wonderful world of revisions... *deep sigh* Some writers welcome revisions, some simply endure them… some run away so fast, only to reluctantly return sometime later. Either way, to make it in the writing world, one needs endurance. Recently I've been re-editing...
Editing Success
I’m an overwriter so I'll keep this post super short. When writing, at times I explain things that don’t need explaining and sometimes I get carried away with the story. So when I edit, I somehow end up with more words than I had before. *sigh* On the bright side, an...