There are few things more frustrating as a writer than seeing all your writer friends using #amwriting on social media when you’ve hit a slow patch. Thankfully though, despite a few false starts, I can now once again claim to be part of that select, productive group (hooray!). I recently left the full-time workforce toContinue reading “Anatomy of a Novel Part 5: #amwriting”
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Anatomy of a Novel Part 4: Dead ends and U-turns
As I’ve said before, books, like laws and sausages, are things you may not want to see getting made, and this is why. I think there’s a popular perception that authors just come up with a great idea and then write it down, but the reality is much messier. It’s not so much taking aContinue reading “Anatomy of a Novel Part 4: Dead ends and U-turns”
Anatomy of a Novel Part 3: Road trip
In this series of posts I’m going to be giving you a warts-and-all look at the process of writing my next novel. Click here for Part 1 and Part 2. A couple of weekends ago we had to go to a wedding at Camden, which is a smallish town at the northern end of theContinue reading “Anatomy of a Novel Part 3: Road trip”
Anatomy of a Novel Part 2: Post-project blues
In this series of posts I’m going to be giving you a warts-and-all look at the process of writing my next novel. Part 1 can be viewed here. A couple of days after I wrote about unexpectedly bombing out of NaNoWriMo, this article from ArtsHub, ‘Eight ways to deal with post-project blues’, fortuitously popped upContinue reading “Anatomy of a Novel Part 2: Post-project blues”
Anatomy of a Novel Part 1: Learning to be kind
In this series of posts I’m going to be giving you a warts-and-all look at the process of writing my next novel, an Australian Gothic thriller tentatively titled The Dark Before the Dawn. The first week of NaNoWriMo is over, and to be honest it’s been a bit of a bust for me. I haveContinue reading “Anatomy of a Novel Part 1: Learning to be kind”
