As promised. Debunking what I said a couple of blogs ago. Fiction Facts The not so great thing about fiction facts is that 1. you shouldn’t use Wiki and 2. you need to understand any facts you read and 3. different perspectives on a theory actually won’t help. Don’t use Wiki It’s pretty standard that…
Tag: writing life
Away with the birds
It’s my first post in what feels like ‘forever’. I was very close to packing it all in (by all I mean anything to do with creative writing, blogging, other website stuff and social media). I’m going to persist for a little while simply because it’s one of the few things in my life that…
Better In My Head
I was at work the other day and two things came up in conversation that gave me pause. The first was a discussion about not finishing ‘things’. The main laugh was that when you have a great imagination you finish your new hobby in your head. For example, I wanted to learn to play the…
Meh with Attitude (What the hell to do with the stories we slave over and missed opportunities)
Okay, maybe not the thing to be following my Australia Day post but it’s how I feel at the moment. It was simple in the old days – you slave over your precious piece of textual brilliance and send it in to a literary agent and then hopefully a publisher. The chances were you’d be…