Design Your Own Book Cover: A Great Exercise in Visualisation

Last week I spent a solid 48 hours doing a last-minute revision of my current novel for a competition deadline. Feeling completely brain dead and unable to face going back to the manuscript just yet I decided the time was right to do something  creative and send some positive vibes out into the universe at the [...]

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Tip #4: Expand Your Writing Horizons

When you first start writing – or even when you’ve been writing for a while – it’s easy to get stuck in a genre rut. If you have always written poetry you may tend to stick with what you know and write only poems. Don’t get me wrong – there’s nothing wrong with that (I [...]

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Tip #3: Go for Quantity Rather Than Quality

At least to begin with. Set a timer, start writing and write without looking back, censoring or editing. Why? To keep the flow of your thoughts, access deeper parts of your subconscious and to prevent the nagging of that internal editor. Writing in a continuous stream allows the words to pour onto the page/screen. Even [...]

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Writing Inspiration

Reading the wise words of other writers is a great way of finding inspiration for your own writing. We all have favourite writers and these days many of them have some sort of web presence. It’s worth gooogling and seeing if your favourites have a blog or website. These sites will have the usual publicity [...]

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