I love my job, I really do, but this last few weeks have taken the proverbial. No stable base, moving around every lesson, no secure bubbles were...
I have been asked to write an article and act as an associate editor for an online archive. It's nice when your non-fiction work gets noticed and...
I think it's time to reintroduce myself. I was a regular a fair few years back, ended up on the staff for about a year, then life got in the way....
Seconded. This is a good use of a prologue, and advice I'd follow. Think about how other writers have approached this problem: GRRM is a good...
I remember reading that about 12 years ago. I survived the first, endured the second and... the less said about the third the better, but I have...
I just don't think Banks' strength was in short fiction. He was at his best when he could really explore a concept at length. I had similar...
A very fair point, and I think I may owe some an apology in terms of their professional status :)
That's the distinction too many draw without thought. None of us on here are professional writers of fiction (I have no doubt that among our...
On that, I saw this on social media: https://writerunboxed.com/2020/02/21/the-authors-guilds-2020-report
Having a reference library that you know is underrated. I have a study which has a wall pretty much covered floor to ceiling by bookcases. I can...
Do you write? Then you're a real writer. Never look to others for validation of who you are, whether that's the comments of friends, the sales at...
NQT for me. Been trying to bludgeon my mind into creativity for the past two days, using prompts, old lines from old works, reworking things I...
Half-term. Or, as it's also known, mountains of marking whilst wanting to write and being devoid of ideas. Still, off to a writing group in Leeds...
I can relate, though perhaps not to that degree. (Pardon the pun). Teaching in a room with a metal roof in the full glare of the sun, without air...
Gardner Dozois, long-time editor of some of the most notable SF anthologies of our times and noted writer in his own right, has passed away. He...
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