WRITING STIMULI

To find but not discover. I often visit Jersey. (If you are not from the UK, this is an island nearer France than England with its own government and personality. It is not in the UK, but a crown dependency – in fact a bailiwick. From time to time, little[…]

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Marketing for Fiction Writers

All writers need good marketing and there are plenty of contenders on the net offering help or tools towards marketing for fiction writers. You know the usual approach, an email with video offer: a video that begins with 20 minutes of insistent voice outlining typical author problems, another 10 minutes[…]

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FORTHCOMING NOVEL

BEWARE WHAT YOU WISH FOR! Coming very shortly, first to Amazon, November 28th, then to Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo and paperback in Spring 2020. Themes: Identity, family, illusion, dark secrets, misrepresentation, ethical dilemmas, disillusion, personal growth and the craziness of human beings At 28, Terry fantasises a life more[…]

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Writing at the speed of light

  SPEED OF LIGHT was the theme for September’s Story Friday evening, held at the cave-like theatre at Burdell’s Yard – in conjunction with A Word in Your Ear Story Fridays are held every second month in Bath, UK. Six or seven writer-performers read freshly-minted stories inspired by a theme, this time[…]

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Planner or pantser

Do you know how you will plan your novel?  There are two kinds of writers: those who plan, and those who write on the seat of their pants. I would love to write the synopsis, theme, backgrounds of each character, main events of each chapter, before I ever begin but[…]

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Starting to write a novel

    Are you starting to write a novel? Yes, it’s hard. Really, it’s best just to press on with it rather than tell people about it. There will be time for that when you’re finished. Here are 10 points to consider. You can waste so much time in the[…]

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