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A writer's journey

  • About
  • A writer’s reflections
    • 171. ChatGPT, the Chinese Room, and the future of human creativity
    • 170. Is verbosity always bad?
    • 169. Reaching one thousand views
    • 168. Loab is coming
    • 166. Grammar snobs and imaginary mistakes
    • 162. People do not have as much character as portrayed in novel
    • 161. Is originality essential?
    • 160.       The future isn’t what it used to be
    • 158. Stories as feel-good therapy
    • 156. Stories and the discovery of the individual hero
    • 154. Truth, Lies, and Stories
    • 151. Tartan and Treachery – a Scottish fascination with spooks
    • 147. Colour me stupid
    • 145. The fiction of troubled times
    • 138. Scenarios for the world after Covid
    • 137. Risk and Fear. Coronavirus Narratives
    • 136. Smashing statues
    • 131. Writing through the lockdown
    • 129. How does a story mean?
    • 127. Twenty novels that shaped literature
    • 126. The mystery rhythm of Sam was a Man
    • 124. Does politics mar literature?
    • 120. Stories that are hidden from us
    • 119. Brexit, uncertainty and the toast Jesus
    • 113. The third variety of fiction
    • 111. What are judges looking for in a writing competition?
    • 109. Complexity or intensity: is sentimentality bad fiction?
    • 108. Creation and Analysis
    • 105. Magic realism vs fantasy vs surrealism
    • 101. The novel as self-discovery
    • My Writing Year
    • 95. I won, I won, I won
    • 93. Stories for change – restoration or transformation?
    • 89. Point of view and perspective
    • 88. Ideology and fiction
    • 85. Writing Gracefully
    • Let me through, I’m a story-teller
    • 82. A strategic turn
    • 74. Granddad! What have you done?
    • 72. How many stories are there?
    • 58. Complexity, stories and the Trickster
    • 54. Ideas from the frontier of knowledge
    • 51. The unsuspected power of stories, Part 3
    • 48. The unsuspected power of stories, Part 2
    • 47. The unsuspected power of stories, Part 1
    • 37. Joan of Arc – heroine or pawn?
    • 33. If you can’t name it, you can’t see it
    • 32. Could a machine write my books?
    • 24. Inner Voices – where do stories come from?
    • 23. The kindness of other writers
    • 16. Playing fast and loose with the facts – more on historical “mash-up”
    • 11. Some more encouraging numbers
    • 10. Social media – 19,999,988 to go
    • 7. Tinkering
    • 2. Learning to Write
    • 1. Join a group
  • Literary Events
    • 164. Farnham Fiction Award Prizewinners
    • 163. Farnham Fiction Award 2022 Shortlist
    • 135. Farnham Flash Fiction Competition 2020
    • 60. Foyles Discovery Day – speed dating with agents
    • 56. The monthly challenge
    • 45. In which our hero attends a Literary Event
    • 20. Costa Short Story Award
    • 15. Winchester – a worship of writers
  • Publishing
    • 146 How to get your book noticed and bought
    • 144. Press launch of “spycop” novel
    • 143. What’s gone wrong with the Amazon “buy” button?
    • 142. On the launch pad
    • 141. Building a review strategy
    • 140 Cover reveal: the evolution of a design
    • 139. What would you pay? Pricing a book
    • 134. Threading the Needle—my journey to publication 2: Which cover?
    • 132. Threading the Needle—my journey to publication 1: The basics
    • 130. Who do you turn to? Choosing self-publishing help
    • 107. Do Readers Prefer Long Novels?
    • 96. A Mentor to walk with me
    • 92. How to succeed as a novelist – more facts
    • 91. The Farnham Short Story Competition
    • 87. How to succeed as a novelist – the facts
    • 86. Rejection is your friend
    • 78. The Big Push
    • 75. The Sunday Times Prize – tempting the muse with breadcrumbs
    • 73. Progress
    • 53. Are you a brand?
    • 31. What price artistic integrity?
    • 28. To publish or not to publish?
    • 17. For whom the bell curve tolls
    • 14. Rejection
    • 8. How do you know what agents and publishers want? Some key websites.
    • 5. Rejection hurts – the dark night of the soul, the light at the end of the tunnel and other clichés
    • 4. After the writing is over – publishing
  • Writing tips and tools
    • 167. Past or present tense? Which to use?
    • 165. How to write sexual attraction
    • 150. Which book discovery site offers best value for money?
    • 149. The world in a grain of sand: fractal stories
    • 128. Crafting powerful scenes
    • 125. Six plot twists and two to avoid
    • 123. How to Win Writing Competitions. Fifteen great tips
    • 122. The robot will see you now: writing apps reviewed
    • 121. Test-driving the Story Grid tool
    • 117 The Shape of Stories
    • 116. Story analysis apps under review
    • 115. Frame Stories
    • 114. From tiny tickles to character reveals: tropisms
    • 113. The third variety of fiction
    • 112. Rules bestselling authors ignore
    • 110. Writing densely: layers and motifs
    • 108. Creation and Analysis
    • 106. Story tricks: making surprise work for you
    • 103. Two steps forward, one step back
    • 100. How to increase visitors to your site
    • 94. Beating the odds to win literary competitions
    • 90. Who do you write like? The limitations of literary analysis tools
    • 83. My secret formula for flash fiction
    • 81. Writing sex
    • 79. Flash in the pan – tips for writing flash fiction
    • 79. Flash in the pan – tips for writing flash fiction
    • 77. Angry readers
    • 76. Why it’s worth writing short stories
    • 71. World-building
    • 70. Developing an author platform
    • 69. The art of descriptive writing
    • 67. Road-testing agents and publishers listings, and avoiding scams
    • 66. The curse of self-doubt
    • 63. Writing a character with post-traumatic stress
    • 62. How did she do that? – The Girl on the Train reverse engineered
    • 57. Kill your darlings
    • 55. A patchwork quilt – linking the impossible
    • 52. The rhythm of language
    • 46. Don’t worry about finding your voice
    • 44. Revising with spine and ribs
    • 43. Things I learned from the University of Iowa creative writing course.
    • 42. What makes a good ending?
    • 40. Zhuang Zhu’s Dream
    • 39. The fourth wall – how readers collude with writers
    • 36. Conceptualists and Experimentalists – which are you?
    • 30. How sticky is glue? Footnote on editing software
    • 29. Machina ex Deus
    • 27. Editing – am I a craftsman?
      • Micro-editing points: Writing
      • Macro-editing points: Character and Story
    • 26. Pithy pitches that woo for you
    • 19. Writing and editing tools
    • 18. The moral core of your characters
    • 13. Scenes, Sequels, and MRUs
    • 12. Tools
    • 9. Lying to your readers
    • 3. Plotting out a story
  • My fiction
    • Friday Fictioneers – Oops
    • Friday Fictioneers – Moment of Decision
    • Friday Fictioneers – See Spot Run
    • Friday Fictioneers – Psst
    • Min Min Challenge – The best laid plans
    • Friday Fictioneers – Empty Eyes
    • Friday Fictioneers – Transference
    • Min Min Challenge – Lights in the Sky
    • Friday Fictioneers – Incident on the A9
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Escher Staircase
    • Friday Fictioneers – The end of memory
    • Friday Fictioneers – Fire
    • Friday Fictioneers – Rear Window
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Visitor
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Apology
    • Friday Fictioneers – The gods
    • Friday Fictioneers – Homecoming
    • Friday Fictioneers – Behind the door
    • Friday Fictioneers – Sign
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Beach
    • Friday Fictioneers – Loab
    • Friday Fictioneers – Floating
    • Friday Fictioneers – War Correspondent
    • Friday Fictioneers -They will understand
    • Friday Fictioneers – Accident
    • Friday Fictioneers – Signatures
    • Friday Fictioneers – Big Rain
    • Friday Fictioneers – Control
    • Friday Fictioneers – Waiter, there’s a man in my soup
    • Friday Fictioneers – Footprint
    • Friday Fictioneers – Astro-archaeology
    • Friday Fictioneers – Rant
    • Friday Fictioneers – Absence
    • Friday Fictioneers – Juxtaposition
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Rift
    • Friday Fictioneers- The Fate
    • Friday Fictioneers – Say it with flowers
    • Friday Fictioneers – Sure and Certain Hope
    • Friday Fictioneers – Fireworks
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Smoke That Thunders
    • Friday Fictioneers – Belinda’s Window
    • Friday Fictioneers – Worm i’ the Bud
    • Friday Fictioneers – Post-It
    • Friday Fictioneers – Smartarse
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Slight
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Corner
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Lost Story
    • Friday Fictioneers – Tessellation
    • Friday Fictioneers – I know
    • Friday Fictioneers – Mutability
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Sight
    • Friday Fictioneers – Silence
    • Friday Fictioneers – Refugee
    • Friday Fictioneers – Beauty is Truth
    • Friday Fictioneers – Living With It
    • Friday Fictioneers – Magic Boy
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Kit
    • Friday Fictioneers – Quiet Desperation
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Song
    • Friday Fictioneers – Kids do the darnedest things
    • Friday Fictioneers – Courtship
    • Friday Fictioneers – Street Artist
    • Friday Fictioneers – One is not enough
    • Friday Fictioneers – Uncertainty
    • Friday Fictioneers – Bequest
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Dunny on Dune View
    • Friday Fictioneers – Shoeshine
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Fence
    • Friday Fictioneers – On the Ice
    • Friday Fictioneers – Sticky Past
    • Friday Fictioneers – Make Money While You Sleep
    • Friday Fictioneers – Summer holiday
    • Friday Fictioneers – Funfair of youth
    • Friday Fictioneers – Take my hand
    • Friday Fictioneers – Never forgetting
    • Friday Fictioneers – Lights
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Secret
    • 159. Ritzkreig
    • Friday Fictioneers – Cycle of Life
    • Friday Fictioneers – Cambridge Backs
    • Friday Fictioneers – Anxiety
    • Friday Fictioneers – Warlord
    • Friday Fictioneers – It’s alive
    • 157. Reading the pandemic runes: Covid stories
    • Friday Fictioneers -Old Man on the Horizon
    • Friday Fictioneers – Wisps
    • Friday Fictioneers – Bauble
    • Friday Fictioneers – Something’s Coming
    • Friday Fictioneers – Mary’s in the fridge
    • Friday Fictioneers – Making Memories
    • 155. Are you a spymaster? Can you crack this code?
    • Friday Fictioneers – Blinded
    • Friday Fictioneers – Hero
    • Friday Fictioneers – Power for Life
    • Friday Fictioneers – Matter out of place
    • Friday Fictioneers – Making the Sky
    • Friday Fictioneers – Giant
    • Friday Fictioneers – A Traveller’s Tale
    • Friday Fictioneers – Even Stevens
    • Friday Fictioneers – Disaster Movie
    • Friday Fictioneers – Alone
    • Friday Fictioneers – Up Went the Barrel
    • Friday Fictioneers – I want a table
    • Friday Fictioneers – Baking
    • 152. Special Offer
    • Friday Fictioneers – Writer in Lockdown
    • Friday Fictioneers – Maestro
    • Friday Fictioneers – Truth Telling
    • Friday Fictioneers – Keeping Ted Alive
    • Friday Fictioneers – Transaction
    • Friday Fictioneers – Where’s Wally?
    • Friday Fictioneers – Anti-Vax
    • Friday Fictioneers – Gaslight
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Wink
    • 148. Cara’s Saga
    • Friday Fictioneers – Job Interview
    • Friday Fictioneers – Gratitude
    • Friday Fictioneers – Battle Cry
    • Friday Fictioneers – Gone
    • Friday Fictioneers – Field Report
    • Friday Fictioneers – Switchback
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Future
    • Friday Fictioneers – Cast Off
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Shadow
    • Friday Fictioneers – Magic Door
    • 144. Press launch of “spycop” novel
    • Friday Fictioneers – the street
    • Friday Fictioneers – Hiding
    • Friday Fictioneers – Self-Interest
    • Friday Fictioneers – Escape
    • Friday Fictioneers – Dirt
    • Friday Fictioneers – The kiss
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Limits of Spells
    • 142. On the launch pad
    • Friday Fictioneers – Keep America Beautiful
    • Friday Fictioneers – Off
    • Friday Fictioneers – Illusion
    • Friday Fictioneers – Jacob’s Ladder
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Dying of the Light
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Train
    • Friday Fictioneers – Backdoor
    • Friday Fictioneers – Objet d’Art
    • Friday Fictioneers – Strangers
    • Friday Fictioneers – The system
    • Friday Fictioneers – Captaining
    • Friday Fictioneers – Dragons
    • Friday Fictioneers – Second Story Man
    • Friday Fictioneers – Charcoal Charlie
    • Friday Fictioneers – the world in a grain of sand
    • Friday Fictioneers – Airiness
    • Friday Fictioneers – Overlords
    • Friday Fictioneers – Jesus wen cry
    • Friday Fictioneers – Make your own story
    • Friday Fictioneers – I had an idea
    • Friday Fictioneers – Through a zinc sheet darkly
    • Friday Fictioneers – Dreaming Spires
    • Friday Fictioneers – Earth Abides
    • Friday Fictioneers – Coda
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Experiment
    • Friday Fictioneers – Dreams
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Knock
    • Friday Fictioneers – Seed Bank
    • Friday Fictioneers – Progress
    • Friday Fictioneers – Parting
    • Friday Fictioneers – Meal by Cloud
    • Friday Fictioneers – Duty
    • Friday Fictioneers – Tupilakosaurus
    • Friday Fictioneers – Daddy
    • Friday Fictioneers – Homesick
    • Friday Fictioneers – Reflections
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Hard Problem
    • Friday Fictioneers – Twins
    • Friday Fictioneers – Shame
    • Friday Fictioneers – Cavity
    • Friday Fictioneers – Taxi War
    • Friday Fictioneers – Fairy Ring
    • Friday Fictioneers – Help
    • Friday Fictioneers – Sacrifice
    • Friday Fictioneers – Playing House
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Wrong Destination
    • Friday Fictioneers – Bar girl
    • Friday Fictioneers – Skin Deep
    • Friday Fictioneers – Vocabulomancy
    • Friday Fictioneers – All
    • Friday Fictioneers – Obedience
    • Friday Fictioneers – the Line
    • Friday Fictioneers – Until Yesterday
    • Friday Fictioneers – Cracks
    • Friday Fictioneers – Ancestor
    • Friday Fictioneers – Ten Steps
    • Friday Fictioneers – Purple Emperor
    • Friday Fictioneers – Martians
    • Friday Fictioneers – Dilemma
    • Friday Fictioneers – Holiday Town
    • Friday Fictioneers – Urban Haunting
    • Friday Fictioneers – Reincarnation
    • Friday Fictioneers – Breakfast
    • Friday Fictioneers – Bel Canto
    • Friday Fictioneers – Deception
    • Friday Fictioneers – Just a Small One
    • Friday Fictioneers – Bears
    • Friday Fictioneers – Gizmo
    • Friday Fictioneers – Selkie
    • Friday Fictioneers – Alex
    • Friday Fictioneers – Temple
    • Friday Fictioneers – Reflections
    • Friday Fictioneers – Sorry
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Message
    • Friday Fictioneers – Stardeath
    • Friday Fictioneers – Mill Girl
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Fan
    • Friday Fictioneers – Conundrum
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Package
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Bad Thing
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Librarian
    • Friday Fictioneers – Hunter’s Moon
    • Friday Fictioneers – Hologram
    • Friday Fictioneers – Safe haven
    • Friday Fictioneers – Hospitality
    • Friday Fictioneers – Fjord
    • Friday Fictioneers – Miss Masie’s Mausoleum
    • Friday Fictioneers – Surveyors
    • Friday Fictioneers – Expedition
    • Friday Fictioneers – Vanishing Point
    • Friday Fictioneers – Oil
    • Friday Fictioneers – Subject and Object
    • Friday Fictioneers – Malkie
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Last
    • Friday Fictioneers – T is for taunt
    • Friday Fictioneers – Incubus
    • Friday Fictioneers – Do Buy
    • Friday Fictioneers – Compassion
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Collection
    • Friday Fictioneers – Backstage
    • Friday Fictioneers – Fish
    • Friday Fictioneers – Free Speech
    • Friday Fictioneers – Day’s End
    • Friday Fictioneers – Dan Grimes
    • Friday Fictioneers – Late
    • Friday Fictioneers – Radium Daguerreotype
    • Friday Fictioneers – Meaning
    • Friday Fictioneers – Small miracles
    • Friday Fictioneers – Air Show
    • Friday Fictioneers – I didn’t plan to steal your dog
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Mask
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Dance
    • Friday Fictioneers – Bargee
    • Friday Fictioneers – Window
    • Friday Fictioneers – Capitol
    • Friday Fictioneers – Holes
    • Friday Fictioneers – Personalised Medicine
    • Friday Fictioneers – Magic
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Walker’s Tale
    • Friday Fictioneers – On the Run
    • Friday Fictioneers – Storage Solution
    • Friday Fictioneers – Taking dictation
    • Friday Fictioneers – Mission Accomplished
    • Friday Fictioneers – Upcycling
    • 104. Nothing is as it was
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Visitation
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Meeting
    • Friday Fictioneers – Naming
    • Friday Fictioneers – Lights in the Sky
    • Friday Fictioneers – Legend
    • Friday Fictioneers – Blizzard
    • Friday Fictioneers – Butterflies
    • Friday Fictioneers – Enchantment
    • Friday Fictioneers – Teatime in Paradise
    • Friday Fictioneers – Monument
    • Friday Fictioneers – Rooming House
    • Friday Fictioneers – Gravity
    • Friday Fictioneers – Cup
    • Friday Fictioneers – Doing Time
    • Friday Fictioneers – Wheels within Wheels
    • Friday Fictioneers – Going Home
    • Friday Fictioneers – Boundarising
    • Friday Fictioneers – Succour
    • 95. I won, I won, I won
    • Friday Fictioneers – Bio-hacker
    • Friday Fictioneers – Invention
    • Friday Fictioneers – Breathing
    • Friday Fictioneers – Common as muck
    • Friday Fictioneers – Attack
    • Friday Fictioneers – Ordinary Folk
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Cottage
    • Friday Fictioneers – Locked-in
    • Friday Fictioneers – Reflection
    • Friday Fictioneers – Wasteland 2
    • Friday Fictioneers – Walker
    • Friday Fictioneers – Miracle at Breakfast
    • Friday Fictioneers – Spectre
    • Friday Fictioneers – Eternity
    • Friday Fictioneers – Feral Stories
    • Friday Fictioneers – Portal
    • Friday Fictioneers – Moko
    • Friday Fictioneers – Flower Power
    • Friday Fictioneers – One Phone Call
    • Friday Fictioneers – Railway Time
    • Friday Fictioneers – the Copenhagen Interpretation
    • Friday Fictioneers – Erasure
    • Friday Fictioneers – Fairy Tale
    • Friday Fictioneers – Departure
    • Friday Fictioneers – Duet
    • Friday Fictioneers – Beam me up
    • Friday Fictioneers – Where do people come from?
    • Friday Fictioneers – the Temptation of Solomon Strong
    • Friday Fictioneers – Nostalgia
    • Friday Fictioneers – Confession
    • Friday Fictioneers – Chess
    • Friday Fictioneers – the Yagnobi
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Atelier
    • Friday Fictioneers – Still Life
    • Friday Fictioneers – Writing on the Wall
    • Friday Fictioneers – Waterfront
    • Friday Fictioneers – A Bundle of Sticks
    • Friday Fictioneers – Tourist Trap
    • Friday Fictioneers – Portent
    • Friday Fictioneers -A Tale Endless as Summer
    • Friday Fictioneers – Starfall
    • Friday Fictioneers – Garbage
    • Friday Fictioneers – Entanglement
    • Friday Fictioneers – Orchid
    • Friday Fictioneers – Illumination
    • Friday Fictioneers – Staying Put
    • Friday Fictioneers – the Miller’s Daughter
    • Friday Fictioneers – At Pat’s
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Test
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Curtain
    • Friday Fictioneers – Speaking English
    • Friday Fictioneers – After the Asteroid
    • Friday Fictioneers – Lovers
    • Friday Fictioneers – The world carried on
    • Friday Fictioneers – the Cellist
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Past
    • Friday Fictioneers – Void
    • Friday Fictioneers – Pieces of Eight
    • Friday Fictioneers – News
    • Friday fictioneers – Bigness
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Vaults
    • Friday Fictioneers – Fame
    • The memory vats
    • The Machine
    • Friday Fictioneers – The Signature, Part 2
    • Friday fictioneers – The Signature
    • Friday fictioneers – What’s the point of wasps?
    • Friday Fictioneers – Thebes
    • Disappearance
    • Friday Fictioneers – Abstract
    • Friday Fictioneers – Leaving
    • Friday Fictioneers -The Ambassador
    • Friday fictioneers – Parting
    • Friday fictioneers – The Fury
    • Friday Fictioneers – Journeying
    • Friday Fictioneers – Curiosity
    • Friday Fictioneers – Inside
    • Friday Fictioneers – War
    • Friday Fictioneers – Beside the seaside
    • Friday fictioneers – Waiting
    • Friday Fictioneers – Blue is the colour
    • Friday Fictioneers – Missing
    • Friday fictioneers – the fall of an angel
    • Friday Fictioneers – Mud
    • Friday Fictioneers – Mystery
    • Friday Fictioneers – Wasteland
    • Friday Fictioneers – Metropolis
    • Friday fictioneers – The Mice
    • Friday fictioneers – river of stars
    • 61. Spin again – Henry VII’s Star Chamber
    • 59. The age-old art of spin
    • 49. Engines of war
    • 40. Zhuang Zhu’s Dream
    • 37. Joan of Arc – heroine or pawn?
  • The Scrivener’s Forge Writing Exercises
    • The Scrivener’s Forge – finale
    • The Swan and the Company – Scrivener’s Forge 12
    • The Scrivener’s Forge 12 – An exercise in creativity
    • Rupture – Scrivener’s Forge 11
    • The Scrivener’s Forge 11 – Point of view again
    • Beans Talk – Scrivener’s Forge 10
    • The Scrivener’s Forge 10 – Point of view
    • The Scrivener’s Forge 9 – Reveals
    • Hunting – Scrivener’s Forge 8
    • The Scrivener’s Forge 8 – Plot and Endings
    • Bomaru’s Quest Part IV – Scrivener’s Forge 7
    • Noble Lies – Scrivener’s Forge 4 exercise
    • The Scrivener’s Forge 4 – Character and Likeability
    • Waiting – Scrivener’s Forge 3 exercise
    • The Scrivener’s Forge 3
    • Reunion
    • The Scrivener’s Forge 2: Character, Desire, and Plot
    • Spin Cycle
    • The Scrivener’s Forge 5 – Character and World-building
    • The Scrivener’s Forge 1
    • The Scrivener’s Forge 7 – Plot: Go in late, come out early
    • Loving Kiran – Scrivener’s Forge 6 exercise
    • The Scrivener’s Forge 6 – Character is action
    • The Barn – Scrivener’s Forge 5 exercise
  • Conversations
    • 152. Knowing what and how to write
    • 98. Interview with Claire Fuller
    • 35. Conversation with A U Latif
    • 34. Songs from the Laughing Tree by A U Latif
  • A Mentee’s Journey
    • A Mentee’s Journey 2: First Pass
    • A Mentee’s Journey 1: Anticipations from an arranged marriage
    • A Mentee’s Journey 3: Voyage’s End
  • The Tears of Boabdil

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