A word can change a mind. A sentence can change a life. A book can change the world.
Distraction. It’s a word used a lot in recent years. It has been used extensively in political circles where a party, a leader, a tyrant distracts their voters from something really bad they are responsible for. Distraction is also a hidden terror for the unsuspecting author. When your reader downloads your book and starts reading,…
Writing fiction is, without a doubt, a process that is full of love, worry, fear and surprise. Almost like raising a child. With the writing process, the creation of plot, characters and setting, when completed, is an entity created by us. It’s not alive, it can’t be compared to human life, but in a way…
Ever since I picked up a pencil and wrote my first short story, Planet A for Acid, I’ve been told I should write about what I know. Back then it was 1963, I was eight years old and to be honest, I didn’t know a lot. I was, however, precocious. Someone described me as an…
I went for a walk today. Not something any of us usually shout about. But to me it was something of a triumph. I managed a five mile walk, which is around 8 kilometres. Not bad for someone recovering from Lymphoplasmacytic Lymphoma, or cancer of the blood to put it in simple laymen’s terms. I…
To me, writing is a passion. It’s also hard work. It’s especially hard work when it’s nice and sunny and all you want to do is go to the beach and write. Yes, write. I want to be able to go down to the beach near me, at Mandria and write. But here’s where life…
There’s a lot of hoo-hah going on in the writing community at the moment concerning outlining in writing. Let me be straight about this piece. I’m not advocating this is how you should write a story or book. This is simply me telling you, dear reader, how I write my books in the Twilight Zone….
If you think the title of this piece seems a bit of a mouthful, well, you would be right, dear reader. But what it actually is are descriptions attached to my medical history that has unfolded since just after Covid-19 laid us all low. It all started on a warm sunny day in 2019 on…
Artificial Intelligence – AI It’s a subject that is creating great disturbances in the dark side of writing. The dark side being that area where so called authors are claiming the rights to a book or books that has actually been written by an AI app. Most writers will be up in arms about this,…
World War 2 Mention World War 2 to most young people and they will have a picture in their head of Nazi bombers being shot down by RAF fighter pilots, or the miracle of Dunkirk. Or they will have a blank expression, smile at you indulgently and swiftly move on, to another subject. It’s easy…
I’m no marketing expert, in fact, quite the opposite. Despite being an indie author for over twelve years, I still feel my marketing efforts are perhaps a little hamfisted, even amateurish. But I have discovered little niche areas that seem to work for me. I’ve read so many books that purport to give you the…
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