May is Short Story Month
What is a short story? A story whose plot (beginning, conflict and resolution) is told in a minimal number of words. Often a short story involves some kind of twist at the end (though this isn’t...
View Article2nd Blogiversary: The Highs and Lows of the Past Year
Wow, what a year! This time last year I was celebrating the very first blogiversary of this blog, I can’t believe another year has past. So much has happened in this past year; these are some of the...
View ArticleHelpful Writing Sites and Blog Post August/September 2011
As I didn’t post a Helpful Writing Sites post last month I’m combining my compilation of helpful links from both August and September into one post. Writing Identifying Your Fantasy Novel’s Subgenre...
View ArticleTake a break from novel writing and venture into short fiction (Guest Post)
After spending November writing a novel (or at least 50,000 words of a novel) you may be feeling it’s time to have a bit of a break, I know that’s how I’m feeling. I’ve set my novel aside until...
View ArticleEighty-Nine on Kindle FREE!
If you’re anything like me, you love getting free stuff. I was really excited when the editor of Eighty Nine (in which my story ‘Eighteen for Life’ is published) announced we’d be having some...
View ArticleInterview with Steve Rossiter
Today I’d like to welcome Steve Rossiter to my blog. Steve runs The Australian Literature Review (www.auslit.net) and Writing Teen Novels (www.writingteennovels.com) and is the editor of various...
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