While reading an article on the subject, I realised that I hadn't ever given much thought as to why writers ought to try a few different editors before sticking to the one that was right for them. The editor I have has been with me since I first started writing novels. For me, she is perfect but her style of editing is extremely difficult to the...
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writer, reader, dreamerThere’s nothing better than opening your front door to a postman carrying a package with your name on it. It’s like getting a birthday present when it’s not your birthday, or a Christmas present when it’s not Christmas. At the end of last year, I discovered book crates and now, I am obsessed! The idea is simple: for a monthly fee, the company of your...
Fun fact about writers: we’re one giant pack of lone wolves. What that means is that we often do things out of solidarity for our fellow writers. Or at least, we pretend to. At the start of the year, a number of my writer friends went on book-buying-bans. Until they had finished reading every single book on their TBR (to-be-read) pile, they weren’t allowed to...
At the start of January, I had three novels in various stages of completion. The first, a story of three friends manoeuvring their way through a difficult week, had a few chapters left to complete. Another was a product of childhood love and confusion that I couldn’t get to work no matter how much I tried – the characters were perfect, but the story just...