A thriller book – in fact any fiction – author usually has to devise names for the characters […]
on writing
Writing about sex is an area that most novelists have to grapple with at some stage of their […]
Writing about Sex – How do you do it, and ...
Interested in the creative process? Are you a writer or an inventor? Well, it seems that the creative […]
Isaac Asimov on Creativity
What’s your favorite tongue twister? Try this after a glass of vino: Theophilus Thistler the thistle sifterWhilst sifting […]
Best Tongue Twister
Strange people make great characters! I was stuck in a traffic jam today and thought about a guy […]
Do you Keep a Character Book?
#amwriting today on the subject of microbreweries as part of a side project, and today I came across […]
Felinfoel Ales – a Memory of Home
Crosswords. No, not argument. Puzzles. I don’t like Sudoku – that’s kind of ‘zero sum’ if you know […]
Discovering Words
Mine isn’t, but ‘a first’ occurred recently when I was sailing between Stromboli and Messina. Using a 3G […]
Is Your Writing All At Sea?
Get Your Facts Right Or Lose Readers! I was recently reading a thriller written by a New York […]
Why is Fact Checking Important?
Here I’m not going to discuss literary fiction – such as written by Ian McKeown or V […]
