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Extra to Yesterday’s post

You know what it’s like, you get something in your brain and it won’t go away. After I posted yesterday, I started thinking about common treads between the first two novels. Thankfully the plots are totally different but I realised there is a similar deconstruction …

I’m a nice person, honest!

Just perusing a couple of lovely reviews that got posted on Amazon for Man in the Bath, and realised a pretty naive scheduling mistake I’ve made. The first comments (and no, as far as I’m aware I don’t know the reviewers) notes how the main …

Peaking Too Soon?

One of my major flaws is that I’m over eager, and that when I get a good idea I just want to get on and do it. In some ways this is a good thing, and keeps me motivated and moving, in others it can …

Poll Now Open

So for any of you wanting to guide my fate, make me suffer, or inspired to follow the process of writing from beginning to bitter end, the poll is now open at https://kitderrick.com/short-fictions/ (bottom of the page) to see which novel you’d like me to …

‘Read Aloud’ function in Word

This revelation and discovery I can’t claim for myself, it was suggested to me by a reviewer but has made a massive difference to my writing, and is possible the biggest (free) help I’ve found. It may sound blindingly obvious, but it’s an option I’d …

Writing

So, after the overwhelming (ahem) response to my offer of a series of blogposts on the writing process, I came to two conclusions. First, on reflection, there’s hundreds of those buggers out there, and while my insights and truthful and thrilling journey might be unique, …

A bit of an unusual one here, I’m going to recomment you follow a link and listen and watch a reading of Bluebird, as this is a work best enjoyed performed I think, like much of Bukowski’s. You can get a huge amount from it …

How to write and publish a book

So, a few people have asked me what my blog is about, and beyond “writing” it’s a challenge to describe, but posts fall into four basic categories; news and releases, influences on my writing/recommendations, influences on me/my thoughts, and the writing process. So I had …

Author Page

You can now find my author page on Amazon, and I’m so proud (pats self on the head) so do keep an eye out for new things there. As my first book is live now, I thought I’d let you know a little secret. Man …

Just a short ‘recommends’ today. I know some purists might not think of graphic novels as ‘art’, but they inspire and take you to a different world, and the best will remain classics forever. This wonderful drawn series (recently republished in anthology form) originally appeared …