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Seven things you need to know about writing short stories
By writer Julie Fairweather The approach to creating a short story is primarily governed by an individual’s writing process. Some writers begin with a single word or phrase and mind-map from that to...
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How to write a (crime) novel #9
In previous parts of this series of blogs I have looked at Getting started. Characterisation. Plotting – setting clues in plain sight. Structure. Settings. Finding the ‘shadow’ side as part of...
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Five Tips for Writing a Series by Kate M Colby
I am very happy to welcome the author Kate M Colby to my blog with her tips for writing a novel series. Her new novel, The Courtesan’s Avenger, is out now: www.katemcolby.com/books Over to you Kate...
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Author Interview: Helen Cadbury
Today it is my great pleasure to welcome crime writer, Helen Cadbury to my blog. Helen Cadbury is a crime fiction author, poet and playwright whose debut novel, To Catch a Rabbit, won the Northern...
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Seven things I’ve learned about playwriting by Jackie Daly
This week I am very happy to welcome fellow writer, Jackie Daly, to talk about play writing… Catch Jackie’s plays at: https://goo.gl/SjRICb in Windsor, 6th, 7th, 8th October 2016 & in Scarborough:...
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‘Made-up truth’ by Jane Davis
The main protagonist in Jane Davis’s latest release is Lucy Forrester, a political poet and activist. Anti-establishment all her life, she is horrified to find herself nominated for a New Year’s...
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7 things you need to know about: Poetry Therapy
By Victoria Field Victoria Field qualified as Certified Poetry Therapist with the National Federation for Biblio-Poetry Therapy in 2005 – she has since done a two year training as a mentor-supervisor...
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Crime novel based in Scarborough – launch 29th October
This post is going to be undeniably self-promoting! Despite the dream I had last night. In my dream I was pregnant and I was wary of telling friends in case they ridiculed or criticised me. I come from...
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#Scarboroughmysteries – Halloween Treat!
I am very proud to announce that my three novels – The Art of the Imperfect (https://goo.gl/JrGat2); The Art of Survival (https://goo.gl/6RPzk5); The Art of Breathing (https://goo.gl/ZqJZjN) – are...
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7 things you need to know about proofreading
Today I welcome fellow author, David Powning, who is also an experienced copy-editor & proofreader, to guide us through what we need to know as writers about proofreading. Learn more at:...
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Author Interview: Ruth F Hunt
Today I am thrilled to welcome Ruth F Hunt to my blog. She is author of the novel The Single Feather (http://www.tinyurl.com/ziaz82m) which has a protagonist who just happens to have disabilities. It...
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7 things you need to know about… Poetry
Today I am delighted to welcome poet and performer, Felix Hodcroft to my blog. Felix Hodcroft gained a BA in English Literature more years ago than he seems (to himself at least) to have been alive....
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7 things you need to know about crime writing
Today I am thrilled to welcome Nick Quantrill to my blog. Nick is an established crime novelist based in Hull. His latest novel, The Dead Can’t Talk, is published by Caffeine Nights Publishing:...
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Author interview: Margarita Morris
Today I am thrilled to welcome Margarita Morris to my blog, not least because she sets novels in my home town, Scarborough, and (from her writing) appears to be entranced by the place as much as I am....
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End of another year
Available: https://goo.gl/ZqJZjN The dwindling pages in my diary tell me that 2016 is running to its close. It’s been the year when I published my third novel, The Art of Breathing, and had new covers...
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Resolutions
I’m not a great one for new year. The enforced jollity and the commercialism doesn’t help, but also it doesn’t appear to fit with my own internal calendar. I am still in hibernation, occasionally...
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7 prompts for writers – introduction
We all have out different reasons for starting to write and then developing ourselves into writers. I’ve always said to students and workshop participants, a writer is someone who writes. They don’t...
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#1 A Photograph
Writers can take inspiration from anywhere. Look at a photograph and imagine you are inside the image: write about what you can see, smell, taste, feel, hear. Then imagine you are something (not a...
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Author Interview: Ann Cleeves
Ann Cleeves, writer, on August 19, 2015 in London, United Kingdom.For more information about using this image contact Micha Theiner:T: +44 (0) 7525 627 491E:...
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7 Prompts for Writers #2
This week we went to Whitley Bay. On a grey, blustery morning we scrambled our way to St Mary’s Lighthouse. The causeway was open, so we walked over. The place appeared deserted. My first thought:...
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