Want to Write a Novel? It’s Not a Race
Want to Write a Novel? It’s Not a Race
Beware the Sharks in the Seo Sea
SEO, it means Search Engine Optimisation. If you are not sure what a search engine is, think Google and there you have it, a search engine designed to give you answers to questions. Like, where can I get a takeaway? Who won the World Cup last...
A Frustrated Writer
Sometimes life can throw you a googly (curved ball to you, my dear American reader) and you can’t do what it is you like doing the most. In my case it’s writing. Until I have my right eye cataract op on Thursday and then wait five...
Historical Fiction: The Brittle Land – Seeing the Way Forward
Historical Fiction The Brittle Land I don’t hold to the belief that everything happens for a reason and am certain there’s no supernatural spirit taking an interest in what I write. It’s just bad timing that I have had to stop...
English Words to Confuse – Bank
There are words in the English language that seem designed to confuse anyone learning the language. Bank is one such word as this piece of flash fiction demonstrates.
Indie Author Book Marketing Is All About Bums on Seats
You write a book. You self-publish as an indie. Then you sit back and wait for the sales… and nothing happens.
Which WIP Next?
Which WIP next? My leaning is to finish Welcome to Beyond, which is based on a classic 1953 black and white a science fiction film, It Came from Outer Space.
Theories of Life, the Universe and Everything
Life is not what it seems.
A Writer’s First Draft Golden Rule
As a writer I have one golden rule I never change.
English Words to Confuse – Club
I once had a conversation in my head, the way writers do, about the word club.
It’s a Blue Dawn in Cyprus
Here in Cyprus, Paphos to be precise, it’s a few minutes past 6am on February 28th, 2021 and the dawn of a new day has arrived and the sky is blue. That sentence above is perhaps a little simplistic, some literary types may even describe is...
The Cyprus Shady Sights Club
I joined the Cyprus Shady Sights club some years ago, not knowing what I had let myself in for. At first everything was fine, but as time went on, I was introduced to increasingly shady sights. I didn’t suspect a thing. I knew it was wrong...
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