The draft is done. Yay! Now it’s time for editing. When I read that someone’s manuscript is with their editor,…
Updated October 2022 I’d never heard of beta readers when I (poorly) published my first books, a fantasy trilogy. If…
Point of View (POV) – a general explanation As writers, we constantly come across explanations of the different kinds of…
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Story endings have come up a lot recently. Or maybe, as I approached the final chapters of draft one of…
Short story writing isn’t as easy as some people make it look. Early in my writing journey I threw a…
As a homework exercise for Dean Writers Circle, I suggested writing a piece in second person, present tense. Not something…
Words of wisdom from Harry Bingham at Jericho Writers. If you haven’t signed up for their newsletter at least, or…
What made me think about it? This morning I was listening to Woman’s Hour on BBC 4 as I drove…
Last night we had a zoom meeting of our local novel group, a sub-group of Dean Writers Circle. Right now,…