The joy of finishing your story, the bliss of an acceptance, the struggle to write your bio. Yay! You’re done.
Wait! You’re not done. There’s more….
Just when you think you have a story nicely wrapped up, and have moved on to other things, you get an email asking you to answer a few questions.
These questions Continue reading
Do you ever worry about tempting fate when you write fiction?
That if you write about x, about something nasty happening, maybe something especially nasty, you might be putting an idea or vibration out into the universe and so that something nasty will actually come to be?
Sounds crazy, I know, but I worry!
Trouble is, there’s not a whole lot of interesting things to write about if you cut out anything negative or unpleasant! Right at the beginning of Continue reading
A change of environment can often work wonders in helping stimulate new ideas, new inspiration, new ways of seeing oneself and the world. New stories too. Perhaps it’s because a strange place makes one hyper-sensitive to new sights, sounds, impressions… That’s why Continue reading
When I saw a TED video called “Try Something New For 30 Days” by Matt Cutts a few days ago, I knew immediately it was the cue I needed to get back to re-writing and editing a story I’d really wanted to write but which I couldn’t finish.
I’m going to commit July to getting to getting to grips with that story (while not forgetting all those other July summery things like floating on water!).
which to choose?
I’ve written a mass of material – far too much for a short story. It has got too spread out and I have quite simply lost my way with it.
So the question is, how should I re-start? So many choices! But I need to find a new way to go about it. Continue reading
So there you have it: a first draft of your short story. What now? What’s the next step?
In a previous post I wrote about my struggle with how to continue with first drafts, especially those that had no clear ending, and how I learned to ‘dig deeper’.
Dig deeper. What does that mean? Continue reading
Susi Lovell 