BOOK REVIEW: Detective Aunty
“Detective Aunty” by Uzma Jalaluddin Published 2025 by Harper Perennial “Detective Aunty” blends aspects of cozy mystery with traditional murder…
The Six Pillars of Good Writing Health
If you tune in to health vlogs, you’ve heard about the six pillars of good health ad nauseum. These are…
Editing Lessons about Characters I Learned from My Dog
Photo by Kern Morris on Unsplash. THE SAGA: My dog, Chubster, gave birth to puppies two days after Super-Typhoon Sinlaku…
Writing prompt
Photo by Clark Tibbs on Unsplash Greatest ambition With this writing prompt, you can explore your own interior life, your…
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…