So many people idealise about writing a book. They have grand plans to leave a legacy, share their story or help others. How many do you think actually achieve those lofty goals? I don’t know either but I’m willing to guess very few end up with a book in print. One thing that stops them…
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Writing A Good Non-Fiction Book … Fast
In any endeavour in life, if you’re not learning you risk going stale and becoming outdated in your methods. The moral is – always be learning. Robert Plank is one of the most prodigious people I’ve come across. He’s quick and savvy at anything he turns his hand to and writing book sis one of…
How To Write – Without Writing!
Just tested using Google Docs Voice tool. Holy Toledo!! Why haven’t I done this before?!? You know, writing can be a hard slog. Tapping away at the keyboad letter by letter. It takes time. And to make matters worse, the typing is nowhere near as fast as my brain can think of things to say….
Write a Novel: The Snowflake Method
Sounds so sweet, doesn’t it? The Snowflake Method. Little shards of snowy ice fluttering around us, carpeting the ground and one by one they form a whole. As innocuous as it sounds, the Snowflake method has been used for years by people who swear it is the reason they managed to write a coherent book….
On Becoming a Writer
I became a writer by writing. I remember almost all of my undergraduate creative writing teachers saying, Just write, and things will happen Quoted by Carrie Oeding from her teachers in her BA English. source: https://phdincreativewriting.wordpress.com/2011/12/04/how-carrie-oeding-became-a-writer/ Well worth the read. Reading any writer’s story provides inspiration to see how others have found their path to…
Lost To The Craft Of Writing
But not their words which is one of their legacies. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons we write, to leave a little of us in the world after we move on. This is a fitting tribute to just some of the more well known writers who passed away in 2013. We wrote about Doris Lessing’s…
Finished Your 1st Draft? Next…
There’s a great warm feeling that rushes through your veins when ‘finish’ your first draft. You type “The End”, print it out, get the satisfaction as you rap all the pages so they are all aligned and you clip it together to … What comes next? Lots of work. Lots. Sadly, if you intend to…
Need a Writing Prompt
Get your creative juices flowing by getting into the HABIT of writing regularly – daily or weekly is good. There are lots of writing prompt ideas around. Here’s one for you from Writers Digest: What In The World Did I Agree To? You had the best time at your New Year’s Eve party-such a good…
