Archive for the ‘Technique’ Category
The roller-coaster ride of publishing a novel
04 Jul 2019THE ROLLER-COASTER RIDE OF PUBLISHING A NOVEL It’s not often that a writer gets to blow his own trumpet, but…
Openings
19 Jun 2019Openings It was like they weren’t there. This is the opening sentence of my novel The Breaking of Liam Glass.…
What makes good writing great?
06 Jun 2019What makes good writing great? What sorts the Austens from the Dan Browns? The Truffauts from the Ed Woods? It’s…
Till the trumpets crack – going beyond
11 May 2019Till the trumpets crack – going beyond In the second movement of Beethoven’s masterful symphony the ‘Eroica’ the music takes…
Has Amazon deleted your reviews?
04 Apr 2019Has Amazon deleted your reviews? A few weeks ago I wrote a blog in which I said how important reviews…
How to write a riveting review
08 Mar 2019How to write a riveting review This week, an art that is both very new and almost as old as…
Rules for novelists writing rules for novelists
21 Nov 2018Many writers have handed down their golden rules for novelists. There seems to come a moment in every writer’s life…
