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All hail the Interwebs
How did writers ever survive without the Interwebs? Its merits must surely rank a thousand-fold — but there is one in particular that has inspired today’s post. Research. Back in the pre-Internet days,...
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Lure of the blog maze
These days a great many writing resources – particularly in the form of blogs – can be found on the Interwebs. There are blogging agents, blogging editors, blogging authors, not to mention blogging...
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Good advice
Last week I stumbled upon Anne R. Allen’s Blog and she has some incredibly sensible things to say about writers and blogging. Her series of posts on blogging (highlighted in her side bar) covers tips...
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On writing & discipline
It is an unequivocal truth that novels do not write themselves. Irrespective of how many words a writer can produce in an hour, or how many hours in a day (or even a week) can be made available to...
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What I get out of blogging
Today I’m going to muse on a topic that has been floating around the writing industry blogosphere the past week or so — which is what writers get out of blogging and how big a ‘platform’ novelists need...
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More on writers and platform pressure
Oh my, the debate about writers and platform expectations is still raging. Over the past couple of days I’ve spent hours knee-deep in blog posts and reader comments, my little introvert heart pounding...
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How reviews influence my choice of books
Once upon a time it seemed as though I had hours and hours a day in which to read. I devoured books at an impressive rate. Although I’m not a particularly fast reader, I made up for it in sheer number...
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The sad demise of reference books
Once upon a time, when I was still living with my parents, a frequent Saturday morning activity was the completion of the weekend general knowledge crossword. Me and my dad would scrabble through an...
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