How Do Authors Get Published? Part 4
Imagine, if you will, a science experiment in which you had before you an array of buttons to press, each of which activated a kind of...
How Do Authors Get Published? Part 3
Many writers set out this way: they write a story or two, straight from their hearts or based on what they think makes a good story, and...
The Words of Rosamunde Pilcher
Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE (née Scott; 1924 – 2019) wrote romance novels, women's fiction and short stories, between 1949 until her...
Learn what a story really is...
Learn: • what a story really is • what it is actually doing to and for you and other readers ​ • the magnetic power that attracts readers...
How Do Authors Get Published? Part 2
Three problems then: 1. As writers, we deal in intangibles - strange, emotional, illogical fabrications which even we don’t completely...
How Do Authors Get Published? Part 1
How do authors get published? To acquire some sort of answer to that all-important query, we have to dig into the question a little. What...
Obstacles to Good Writing #4: Range
Apart from the level of vocabulary - whether a set of words is too simple, average or too advanced for a corresponding set of readers -...
Obstacles to Good Writing #3: Vocabulary
There’s another potential obstacle that arises between the writer and the reader which is occasionally so obvious that it is overlooked,...
