A Writer’s Spring Cleaning
Photo by Jess Zoerb on Unsplash It’s April and time for Spring cleaning. Airing out the house. Getting rid of…
Creating cookie fortunes
You might think that writing fortune cookie fortunes isn’t really “writing,” but it is. There is an art to creating…
A Writer’s Playground
My experience: Most writing advice is editing advice. In my experience, it’s rarely helpful in writing a novel-first-draft. If you…
Book Review-THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB
Title: The Thursday Murder Club Author: Richard Osman Date of Publication: 2021 Publisher: Penguin Books INTRODUCTION: The set-up is a…
Book Review-Black Rabbit Hall
TITLE: BLACK RABBIT HALL AUTHOR: Eve Chase DATE OF PUBLICATION: 2016 Available at Joeten-Kiyu Public Library INTRODUCTION: Meet Lorna. Meet…
Easy editing tips
NaNoWriMo novels will necessarily need editing! How we write in November is not how we want to read! We write…
Filling the Void
MaNaNaNoWriMo is over. And now it’s back to the mundane activities of ordinary life. Fortunately, we have December holidays to…
Why it is not NaNoWriMo anymore…
Background In 1997, Chris Baty and a group of his friends each set out to write a 50,000 word novel…
MaNaNoWriMo Inspiration
For what it’s worth, I’m sharing some of the tactics I’ve used so far this month to get writing and…
Advice for NaNoWriMo
Of course the best guide to NaNoWriMo is still Chris Baty’s book, NO PLOT? NO PROBLEM! But here is a…