Hah – I realise, it sounds a bit pretentious and it’s not meant to but today I’m feeling more than a bit “professional”. I have my first bit of professional writing published today, 25th March 2010. The reason? My short story “Good Guys” is published under my pseudonym for writing adult fiction: Liz Muir in [...]
When I wrote Curse of the Djinn last year I was very cut off from the world. I didn’t like talking about my writing, the plot, the plan, nothing. Even to Mark. I allowed him to read one or two things to get his input, but that was it. I loved the creative process, I [...]
I am a big fan of finding pictures of my characters or photos of locations. Last week I spotted the perfect representative boy for my one character in an ongoing WIP called TDE. He was handsome in an aesthetic way, but wiry enough not to look too much like a Type A nerd. I was smitten. Out came the trusty moleskine and I [...]
It was with much trepidation that I set off to Farringdon this morning – very early. The tube was on the blink, with a lot of stations closed and some lines not running at all. But, I persevered and got there in one piece. An hour early. But, fortunately, I wasn’t the only one. I [...]
I am a big fan of Mary Hoffman’s. She tells it like it is on her blog and on Facebook. She’s creative, amusing and highly quotable, which is why I’m linking to her blogpost here and her main website here (advice for writers). I’m linking to her blog because of the title of this blog: [...]
