Archive | April, 2009

This will blow your mind.

29 April 2009

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Something has been bothering me for the past few months, ever since I saw what I can only describe as “a very surprising thing” on children’s television. It was something that made me question everything I have ever believed. It was something that forced me to realise that not only do I not have all [...]

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12 Tips for Pro Writing – Part 3

27 April 2009

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In the last two blog posts we’ve looked at tips 1-8, so logically let us now conclude with tips 9-12.  Then I can get back to writing any old guff about wasps or whatever on here, instead of trying to seem all clever an’ that. 9.  Experience beats research The internet is great.  In fact, [...]

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12 Tips for Pro Writing – Part 2

17 April 2009

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In the last post, we looked at four tips that could help you on your way to writing professionally.  I should have mentioned at the beginning that when I saw “writing professionally” I mean becoming a published writer of fiction.  A lot of the tips will apply to other forms of writing – articles, non-fiction, [...]

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12 Tips for Pro Writing – Part 1

13 April 2009

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During a recent school visit, I was asked what you need to do to become a writer. Because we were about to run out of time, the only advice I was able to give was “practice”. But of course there’s more to becoming a professional writer than just writing a lot. I may not have [...]

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How to write a novel in 3 days

7 April 2009

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Step 1.  Make sure it’s a novel aimed at 5-9 year olds, and as such is only 13,000 words long. Step 2.  Write at an average pace of 4,333 words per day. Step 3.  There is no step 3.  That’s it. Simple, eh?  Seriously, it is.  I’ve just done it.  Twice. Thanks to my lightning [...]

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More lovely praise for Invisible Fiends

3 April 2009

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Sam Enthoven, author of The Black Tattoo and TIM: Defender of Earth, read INVISIBLE FIENDS: MR MUMBLES recently and gave me some positively glowing feedback.  Fair warmed the cockles o’ me heart, so it did.  He rounded of his review with this, my second author quote for the series: “Young people who doubt that books [...]

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Amagone

1 April 2009

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Apologies for the pun in the title of this post. It was rubbish, I know. Just a quick post to say that I am in the process of stripping away any and all links to Amazon from the site. I’ve already removed the links from the My Books page and will be going through all [...]

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