Tag: books
Creative Writing Tips & Prompts – Step Outside Your Comfort Zone
I know it can sound so simple, but then you have a pad and paper or laptop screen and it’s glaringly blank. I get it. It’s exactly how my every book I’ve ever written starts out. All writers have a blank page as their starting point. Don’t be scared.
Why I’m Now Working On Substack…
Substack allows me another way to work with you, whilst allowing me a space to do what I love. To motivate, educate, break down walls of confusion…
Do We As Diverse Writers Have An Ethical Obligation to Embrace AI?
We know, or should, that sexism and diversity has always been a concern raised about artificial intelligence. It should come as no surprise in an area, technology, that had and still has a gender gap.
Episode #022 Reading Books Is Good For You, There’s A Really Simple Way To Up Your Game
Whether it be an ebook, audio or lovely smelly hardback, books are beautiful and valuable, make time to enjoy them.
Five Ways You Can Get Organised as a Writer, and Make Sure You Don’t Lose Your Work
As we are all creatives, organisation doesn’t always come to us naturally but after years of corporate systems, I’m here to help.
Laidlaw, William McIlvanney – ABSOLUTE CLASSIC – The best book I’ve read all year!
…it’s also lyrical, dramatic, page turning, violent, and a fantastic Glasgow story set in the 1970s.
Episode #008 Why Midlife Is Exactly The Right Time To Write That Book
Writing is a creative journey that many come to later in life.
This episode includes a discount code for my 1-2-1 creativity coaching.
5 Simple Ways to Improve Your Creative Writing
You need to get that story told, get it committed to words on a page or a computer screen. Once it’s down, mistakes included, you start the rewarding, repetitive often heartbreaking process of editing.
How To Write A Book Based On My Personal Experience (With Roxanne San Jose)
Without passion, there is lack of perseverance and without hard work, nothing can be done.
Why It’s A Great Idea For A Book Lover To Have A You Tube Channel
I’d love your feedback on the books I’ve read. Do you agree, love the book, or not so much?
10 Essential Books on How To Write, Self-Publish and Sell Your Book
All it takes is passion, discipline and hard work. I’ve put this list together to help you start your writing journey!
Present Danger, Stella Rimington – No Spoiler Book Review
Reading is a great way to research your genre for writing too, so you can even call it work research! How cool is that!
Book Review – Business for Authors: How to be an Author Entrepreneur, Joanna Penn
I knew I wanted a different career, I frequently said to myself ‘There must be more than this.’
Book Review of Non-Fiction / Autobiographical Book – On Writing, A Memoir of The Craft, Stephen King
We may not all end up with a back list as long as your arm, but if you want to write it’s a great place to get advice from someone who knows. He truly does have the t-shirt.
Book Review – The Narrows, Michael Connelly
The stereotypical FBI agent was ineffective and egotistical which is disappointing but I guess usual for this type of novel.
Book Review – Wikileaks – Inside Julian Assange’s War On Secrecy, David Leigh and Luke Harding
The authors were ‘at the centre of a unique publishing drama that involved the release of some 250 000 secret diplomatic cables and classified files from the Afghan and Iraq wars’
Book Review: No Time For Goodbye, Linwood Barclay
Very cleverly written, is she going mad or is someone trying to make it seem she is losing her grip? If so, who?