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Give yourself time to dream; the best ideas will sneak up on you in spare moments. Give yourself time to…
There’s more creativity in a collection of science fiction stories than in a whole library of literary giants. There’s more…
Try to quell the Yorkshireness of your character. As to the actual writing, you tend to be too pedantic, even…
Finding any way I can to embody the Deadly Dame angle helps to tie in the crime novel with the…
From the Starship Enterprise to Star Wars, it’s wall-to-wall screens with not a bookshelf in sight. From the Starship Enterprise…
With the clock loudly ticking, the strain of not being able to write was disastrously compounded by the strain of…
Keep hold of, and do not apologise for, the other voice that asserts that you can do this. Whilst that…
I keep what I read because the object conjures the ghost of a person, a place, or time, and the…
It annoys me that Romeo is fickle; that chance plays a major role, or that Romeo evades the death sentence…
Who was the woman? Why was she vulnerable to an affair? Who did she have it with? Why did she…
If the Muse is playing hard to get, I start with a scene I feel I know better, and if…
Plans so detailed as to be half a book in themselves. Finishing off each day with a paragraph in capitals…
