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A Busy Time

Sorry the blog has been a little sparse of late, but when I began my career break I thought I’d have all the time in the world for writing. It turns out I don’t know how I ever had the time to work at all! …

The Occasional Value of No Feedback

The Holy Grail for most of us as writers is feedback, as it drives interest, sales and reads, and I by no means under estimate the importance of comments and feedback. But I’ve found that in some cases, the value of not getting feedback can …

What Am I Doing?

This isn’t an existential question, just a quick update on my present activities. Which, as we speak, is realising that many of my sentences are so passive they could be in a petting zoo. But, anyway… I’m currently on a career break, so am evaluating …

The Pants of a Plotter

So, a very interesting exchange on Twitter last night directed me to an article on the two most commonly espoused approaches to creating narrative (in the Twitter writing community anyway), namely the relative benefits of the ‘Plotter’/’Planner’ (who develops a detailed outline before putting pen …

A Break From Work

I’ve made the gratifying decision to take four months off work! There was been a lot of personal difficulty for the last few years, and my work is good enough to make this possible, so Sept to Dec I shall be footloose and fancy free. …

Derrick does it again with this one. Oh dear, that doesn’t sound good, does it? Don’t worry, I’m not going to slate this book, as for me, it works very well, and his writing is improving with each book, the problem is that he’s again …

At last, the reviewer has something positive to say about Kit Derrick! Hope Is A Six Letter Word is quite different from the author’s earlier books, and is probably his best to date. It must be a difficult book to pitch (as it is to …

Update to Review: The Raven Sound (2nd edition) – by me

This is just a short update to a previous post to say that I’m very pleased to see that Kit Derrick listens to critical opinion. Following on from my previous review, and some other comments, he’s had the good sense to go back to his …

Slight policy change

I’ve decided not to post reviews of other author’s books on the blog for a while, unless there’s an exceptional reason. There’s a simple reason, in that I’ve checked my dashboard and unfortunately, I’m getting very few visits for them, and they take time to …

The Raven Sound (Slight Return)

So, I’m currently in one of those slight slumps we all get, and am finding it hard to be inspired by new projects, though I have many which I need to work on, and I love them all. Partly I have a bad back so …