- creative writing & book development

How Not To Get A Book Deal But Write The Book You Want (FREE version!)

I still can’t get over the fact of a literary agency charging £649 for a daylong course called How To

Some old, some new, some rereads – my books of the year, roughly in order of reading: Raven Leilani, LusterIsabel

Today is All Saints’ Day aka All Hallows aka the Feast of All Saints aka the Solemnity of All Saints

The idea of want crops up so often as a basic driver of stories – in defining a character’s motivations

Once you’ve established what your characters Can and Can’t do, you can make things more interesting by feeling your way through

I often suggest that writers who are looking for fresh perspectives on their manuscripts take a bit of time away

Something we discussed earlier this year at a Words Away Zalon on mindfulness and writing was the idea of gnarliness. I first

As a guest at a recent Words Away Zalon on mindfulness and writing, I made a passing reference to Kellie Jackson

I am currently taking The Way of Writing, Natalie Goldberg’s new online class with Shambhala Publications. It was truly exciting on

At a recent Words Away Zalon, Words In Action, I talked to Kellie Jackson about mindfulness in relation to creativity, writing

My stand-out read of 2020 was a brilliant work of nonfiction. If you have not read it, you have to:

To round out this short series of posts about the Four Elements practice in writing, let’s look at the fourth and