Feeling like a number one. As Twitter reminded me today, according to Albert Einstein, doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results, is a sign of madness. Or it could have been Rita Mae Brown. Anyway, whoever it was, they had a point. Self-publishing is half of an ‘A frame’ and without the …
Month: August 2013
Accentuate the negative
“Are you sure this is a gastro pub?” It’s a common theme that writers exist, by and large in a vacuum. Non-fiction writers are more likely to have parameters to work within – client deadlines and briefs. For fiction writers, those boundaries may be set by a writing competition, or else by agents’ and publishers’ …
In conversation
Ooh, bubbles! “We have to decide what sort of writers we are, not merely for the words, but also for how we shall live. Does our curiosity about life stir us into new circumstances and chances to be taken? Do we let the muse lead us blindly, gladly and madly into the forest of our own imagination, with …
We love you, grammar
Are they just jerking your chain? I used Grammarly to online proofreader this post, because sometimes I don’t know my hast from my elbow.We all know that the right words can make the message memorable, whereas the wrong words can make the message memorable too, but for all the wrong reasons. You could say that …