Archive for the ‘Technique’ Category
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Do’s and don’ts of submitting to agents
30 Oct 2019SUBMITTING TO AGENTS Crime writer Dominique Hall has written to me for advice on sending a novel to an agent.…
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How to create a character that lives
20 Sep 2019HOW TO CREATE A CHARACTER THAT LIVES This week I talked to Bonnie D Graham on her radio programme Read…
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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…
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Openings
19 Jun 2019Openings It was like they weren’t there. This is the opening sentence of my novel The Breaking of Liam Glass.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
