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21 Sep 2012
Nothing is ever finished, is it?
“I now pronounce you man and wife.” “We find the defendant not guilty.” “Tonight’s winning lottery numbers are…” Some things in life have a clear delineation between Before and After. You can circle that day on your calendar, point to that moment and say, “That was the instant one phase of my life ended and another began.” Writing a book... read more
20 Aug 2012
The Magic of 500
500 words. That’s all it takes. 500 words per day and after a month, you have 15,000. After five months, you could have 75,000. Why am I talking numbers on a blog about writing? Because word count is one of those things that writers often obsess over. You must have seen them on Twitter, the writers who blithely announce that they’ve blitzed ahead and added another 6000 words to their work in... read more
25 Jun 2012
Tackling Difficulties Head On
The theme for this month’s post is ‘Your Greatest Difficulty as a Writer’, and as soon as I saw the theme, I knew what mine would be. As much as I’d normally say that mine is actually getting things finished, I think it’s becoming more and more apparent that my greatest difficulty is talking about writing. I know what you’re thinking. I write posts for Write Anything,... read more
12 Jun 2012
Making writing a priority
The biggest difficulty I have with my writing is making it a priority. I write when I can, including times when I should really be doing something else. There’s not really a scheduled block of time that I can point to on my daily appointment calendar and say, “This hour is spoken for. I’ll be writing from 10:00 – 11:00, so hold all my calls.” It’s not like I have a... read more
8 Jun 2012
Write the Graphic Design Way
I’ve been teaching the digital side of graphic design since October and it’s struck me on more than one occasion how many similarities there are between the process that every designer follows when working on a project and the process followed by a writer. So here is my five point plan to help you write your stories the graphic design way! 1) Set yourself a brief. Designers might work to a... read more
25 Mar 2012
How To Write: Historical Fiction
This is the first of our ‘how to’ form and genre articles to compliment the Form and Genre Challenge. This week, Write Anything’s own Emma Venables gives you the lowdown on writing historical fiction. I’ve written historical fiction for as long as I can remember. One of my teachers at high school first alerted me to this fact when we’d written ghost stories and mine was the... read more
