Month: February 2010

>Last weekend, I posted Elmore Leonard’s 10 rules for writing fiction. In the course of discussion, I admitted that I didn’t look at them so

>It has been a good news and bad news sort of week. First, I got a renewed contract and cheque in advance for editing –

> Ah. What a week! Apologies for being a little absent from the blogging. I had a three day short story Masterclass this week in

>Sarah’s offered quite a lot about remembering that there’s someone on the other end of the book, and way to keep that person reading. I’m

> Lately I’ve run into two or three beginner writers who have EARNESTLY informed me they’re writing what they’d like to read. They don’t care

> I spent the last few days going through book one of King Rolen’s Kin, doing the edits my UK editor had asked for. Before