Tag: Writing
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A Million Words
I’m following in David’s footsteps from over at Forking Mad, when he asks: What things are easy for you to write about? What things are hard? As someone who has written literally millions of words and curated just as many since moving into print and publishing, it’s a mute point as to what’s hard and…
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Be Authentic
You don’t have to become an expert on a subject to write about it, but you do have to do research and due diligence in order to write with authority and make your work sound plausible. Authenticity is key, that’s why I love authors who do their research like Steph Broadribb, author of the Lori…
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THE NOVELIST: The moors beckoned, shrouded in mist, Cathy wandered through the bracken dreaming of Heathcliff. THE REALITY: Cathy tumbled out of the country bus, walked through a break in a stone wall and onto the heath, only to be chased by a vicious looking sheep named Heathcliff.
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Writers verses Editors
What the writer says, and what the editor thinks: This is just a Beta Release — It’s haemorrhaging errors I fixed chapter 23 — the remaining 72 chapters are, however, crap I’ll just kill off this character — procrastinating, has no idea how to proceed And a time machine appeared in the middle of the…