How any writer plans, plots and proceeds is as individualised and personal as their method of organisation – or lack of it. If the word ORGANISE makes you shudder – if chaos is your thing, think about it with the Later Writer for a while. This post is for you…
“…each magazine, website, publishing house, competition exists to fox you and me! Not really, but record keeping is essential to ensure you recall which story has gone where, when and why.”
It is the night before Christmas and you may wonder what has happened to my usual post? Well, I’m here now… I know countless wouldbe and alreadybe authors all over the world will make plans (don’t look up alreadybe, I made that up). Some might be kept, developed and bring satisfaction and success. Other plans might be overworked (guilty of that one) and fall by […]
“I thought it high time I looked again at the suggestions and prompts I made in those two articles – this will be the last one on the theme.”
“I promised to get you writing using prompts – you could call these games or starters – they are ways to get you writing and that is what matters most.”
“Wherever you send your manuscript/document is a potential market. It is not all that complicated…”
Do you need to be in the write mood? Is there a time of day when writing becomes somehow easier? What is the right writing time?
If you are using a laptop or pc for writing, your novel will be easily edited as you write. That’s my preferred method. However, this can lead to…