Why Fiction is So Hard to Write

Why Fiction is So Hard to Write

by | Mar 4, 2011 | Fiction

Why Fiction is So Hard to Write I’ve been blogging for a little over three years. I’ve been writing fiction since … well, pretty much since I could write. My blog posts are read by thousands of people. Only 1% of the fiction I’ve ever written...
Indie Publishing: Self-Publishing Grows Up

Indie Publishing: Self-Publishing Grows Up

by | Feb 28, 2011 | Publishing

Indie Publishing: Self-Publishing Grows Up (A screenshot from Amazon.co.uk front page) I’ve been hanging around in the writing world for twelve years, since I was fourteen. That’s when I bought my first book about writing, and when I first went to a...
Are You Over-Editing Your Work?

Are You Over-Editing Your Work?

by | Feb 16, 2011 | Editing

Are You Over-Editing Your Work? Image from Flickr by pheaber Last week’s post on The Four Essential Stages of Writing got some great comments, including this one from Ainslie: I must admit that I am beginning to enjoy the redrafting and editing phase of my work...
Beyond Freelancing: The Shift to Entrepreneur

Beyond Freelancing: The Shift to Entrepreneur

by | Dec 16, 2010 | Freelancing

This post is a semi-sequel to Freelance Writing: Ten Steps, Tons of Resources. As ever, I’d be delighted if you’d share it on Twitter. It’s pretty long (over 5000 words) so you may want to bookmark or print it, too.I get bored quickly. While I...

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