Get Me Writing

It’s never a bad time to start thinknig about your ending for your epic creation. But how do you go about it? Discuss! Read more…

Wherein we speak of motivation, doubt, and fitting new material into the old. Read more…

There are big projects, and there are big projects. In the start of a new series of posts, I’ll be taking a look at what it takes to create your own epic. Let’s step beyond novels, and into the realms of epic fiction! Read more…

Nigh on impossible to get right, that is!  OK, all (terrible) puns aside, I thought it might be good to talk a little bit about endings. That is, after all, the ultimate goal of any writing project, is it not? Read more…

So this post isn’t going to apply to all writers. If you write poetry, or short fiction, then you’re probably safe from what I’ll be talking about. If however, you’re someone who writes big, possibly multi-book fiction, then you may understand a little what I’m talking about here.

Yes, that influence thing. Read more…

I’m nearly at the point in my novel where I said I would stop for a break. But now that I’m so close to that point, I’m really really crawling, and finding it hard to get into it. Read more…

By cripes and jiminy, my novel is coming on slowly! This is fine in a way. Once completed it will be the first novel I have penned ’til the end. But it doesn’t half create some uncertainty. Read more…

As regular readers will know, I have lately been grappling with story structure and getting something of a complete plan of my novel down. But there is a mysterious hole at the end; a nether region of uncertain, shifting shapes. This, dear reader, is my ending. Read more…

This week, I have mostly been reading about story structure. Read more…

I used to put a great deal of importance on backstory. Backstory, I thought, really makes a tale great. And I used to think that meant spending ages refining it, before even starting on the story proper. Read more…