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The Write Ingredients: Inspiration

Using inspiration is like knowing where you keep your frozen foodstuffs – they are there when you need them and perfectly safe as long as you keep the freezer plugged in and the contents topped up.

The Write Ingredients: Confidence

Using confidence is like taking the L plates off your vehicle when you’ve passed your driving test. At some point you can stop thinking about how to drive and just get on with it.

Book Reviews

In the early 2000s, I ran a website where I promoted and reviewed UK-published children’s books. It was before the social media explosion that gave rise to many of the aforementioned book-related online information and interaction…

Turning to Crime Writing

Books I Read May Guide My Writing I’m now into crime fiction although not a quick or prolific reader in that health often intervenes with my plans. However, when I read I do like to be both entertained and challenged. I used to keep, and still have, notebooks where I listed my reading achievements. It is an eclectic list that highlights the ages I’ve lived […]

Writing Magazine Help

I believe, just as we all went to school where we learned to physically read and write from teachers skilled in the processes required, so too we can learn tricks and tips…

A Course, Of Course

I have deliberately NOT offered links or suggestions. This is a personal area of self-learning – seek and ye shall find! There’s a course that is right for you if you suss everything out.

Hope for Writers

This is a good point at which to consider Hope …as the United States has a new President and as the United Kingdom rolls out its vaccination program on a large scale. Both countries are up against the Covid enemy and daily life is unrecognisable to many.