Articles to help you develop your confidence, craft and practice as a writer.
You can’t pad your novel with a bath sponge
I am not, sadly, an amazing baker. If I were to appear on The Great British Bake-off: An Extra Slice, it would not be to showcase my beautiful, Paul-Hollywood-handshake-worthy cake. I would be displaying my…
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Writing for the sheer love of it
Are you living the dream as a writer, or have you got a little lost along the way? Remember all the long years that you yearned to become a writer, and you envisioned what that…
Shipping your writing, and then leaving it at sea
Do you ‘ship’ your writing? Steve Jobs famously told Apple developers that they must ship, i.e. deliver their work. Creatives can easily get lost in their art and fail to ship it, usually due to…
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A salute to writers
Writing is hard sometimes. Some days the words flow; some days we get in our own way.I wrote the following piece years ago, after working with an author who was having a really hard time…
