Mini Book Review – The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

February 25, 2021.Reading time 7 minutes.

As part of my ongoing journey into writer’s block and writing itself, I was pointed towards this book by a reader. I’d like to post a mini-review to go over the most important parts of the book that might help other writers out of their writer’s block. So the key points to take away from […]

A Writer’s Thoughts – How Optimising Your Copy for SEO Can Help Improve Your Writing

February 9, 2021.Reading time 4 minutes.

Recently, I’ve been engaged with my other blog upgrading it to a business account and updating articles for SEO. You might wonder what that has to do with writing? Well, it has everything to do with writing! Not all of my goals relate directly to writing, but they do connect indirectly. To have good search […]

Writer to Writer – Writing to a schedule or writing when it’s right?

February 2, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

I am hoping that someone will reply to this post because I am kinda stuck at the moment. I have been enjoying writing every day but the weekend got away with me due to other commitments (Sundance was on so reviews had to be written) so now my writing blog sits here unattended. So what […]

A Writer’s Thoughts: On Publishing, Being Self Published and Beginnings

January 25, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

I was relaxing this morning, drinking my coffee and just staring at my blog wondering about writing. Then I started thinking about Wattpad (as you know, I’ve been thinking about using Wattpad for my writing) and I suddenly felt quite odd about it. To be honest, I don’t think I am a “Wattpad” writer. And […]

Finding the Right Premise for My Next Story

January 18, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

Writing about how to create a premise yesterday has put me on the back foot a bit. I am struggling to come up with a premise that works for my story and while I feel like I am close, something about it just doesn’t sit right with me so I can’t use it until it […]

How Important Is The Story Premise?

January 16, 2021.Reading time 4 minutes.

As a writer, I have only just learned about the importance of having a premise for a story/book or whatever it is that you’re working on. And it really helped me a lot once I understood its importance to the fiction writing process. I learned it from Joe Bunting over at The Write Practice. I […]