I do not make New Year’s Resolutions in a formal way. I know my limits but I do make changes at the start of the year simply to reflect Christmas has been and gone, too much food has been consumed, winter (in the UK) is still with us. These facts present opportunities: Hopes for 2026 Last year, I completed a massive rewrite of the novel […]
Let me explain how I concluded this would be the PP topic for my next freewriting topic. Where We Are Now – What Next? The world stage seems dominated by pompous players. Surely we need a return to practical politicians…are we not, in fact, desperate for common sense and wholesome values? Recalibrating the Globe A recent edition of BBC One – The Repair Shop featured […]
Today’s writing prompt is my response to choosing the theme for my next novel. Which Novel – A Disclaimer At present, I am still seeking representation for the novel recently completed. And I’m told the best way to be using my time is to be writing the next novel, especially as I love it. However, I’m taking an artist break to think through the choices, […]
How Do Your Memories Feature In Your Writing? Please read my previous post on Auto/Biographical Writing in which I described a memory that is still important to me, and wrote a poem about my memory of following my grandmother into teaching. At what point might memory cross over into fiction, I’ve been wondering. We can never eliminate the expansive imagined material that our brains house. […]
A Novel Rewrite/New Genre is Underway The changes are so significant, this is almost a new first draft, a chance to add all that the novel lacked, to reshape it, to listen to my inner voice, and to do my characters justice. Not Really An Announcement Sometimes no news is little news. Other times a little news in big news. This is hovering somewhere in […]
The New Work-In-Progress Is On the Starting Block… …waiting for ready, steady, GO, to be called. What? I have a theme, a location, some sketchy characters – what next? The planning stage is both exciting and daunting. But last week, I hit snarled traffic, full stop, or maybe just a short vehicle queue. Who knows? This isn’t writer’s block, more like the brain fog I’m […]
Formerly Called the Work-In-Progress, Now an Unpublished Book Months of drafting, redrafting and editing are behind me, for now. What next? But before life moves on too fast (oh, how I wish) I’d like to pause and think about the two human characteristics I’ve strengthened along the way. Tenacity and Resilience This may sound a tad pretentious but saying, “I will write a novel” before […]
My main advice is…keep writing! Keep coming back to Later Writer in 2023.
How’s the Editing Coming Along? See I’d hoped I might have my novel edited ready to query by now. In fact, real life has to happen and so it is not yet completed. As I am not yet under contract, it will be what it’ll be, take the time it will take. What Other Writing Activities Am I Doing? Let’s have a list – I […]