The Creative Writer

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  • Where to find story ideas

    Where to find story ideas

    Have you ever read a story and thought that it was amazing and that you could never do that?  Generating story ideas acts a little like a muscle – the more you use it, the easier it gets. Actively looking for story ideas can help you to generate more. You want to begin writing stories…

  • Book Review: Self-Publish and Succeed

    Book Review: Self-Publish and Succeed

    Self-Publish and Succeed: The ‘No boring books’ way to write a non-fiction book that sells by Julie Broad Thanks to Netgalley for my preview copy of this book When reading a self-help book, it is always gratifying to see that the author has taken their own advice in the production of their book. Julie Broad…

  • Maintaining Mental Health as a Freelancer

    Maintaining Mental Health as a Freelancer

    My mental health is very volatile at the moment. One moment I am calm and enjoying the peace, the next, I am feeling sad, then angry in a never-ending circle. Mental health is a very important issue right now because of the unusual times we are currently living in. Pandemics happen approximately once every 100…

  • My transformation through 30 days’ blogging

    My transformation through 30 days’ blogging

    30 days ago, I was not quite at the beginning of my 30 day blogging challenge. You see, it has taken my longer than 30 days to reach 30 posts. I was at Day 7, thirty days ago, but it has still been a transformation. I love writing, but producing content for my own blog…

  • 7 retro blog posts you might like to check out

    7 retro blog posts you might like to check out

    When you’ve put a lot of effort into writing your blog posts, it can be difficult to lose them off the top page and awkward for visitors to your page to find and read them, unless of course, they found them through searching a specific topic in Google. So it is good to occasionally write…

  • 7 Ways to Find that Next Blog Post

    7 Ways to Find that Next Blog Post

    There are times when writing a blog comes so easily. Then there are times when it becomes more difficult. It seems that every subject that you want to write about, has been already covered many times before, by more esteemed writers, in such a better way than you could ever write. What’s the point? Surely,…

  • Where Do Writers Write?

    Roald Dahl famously had a chair in a hut at the bottom of the garden where he wrote his wickedly funny stories. Ernest Hemmingway wrote standing up as did Victor Hugo, the creator of Frankenstein. Charles Dickens wrote at a desk that he was so attached to, that he had it shipped away on holiday…

  • The Creative Writer Interviews Kathleen McGurl, UK Author

      Kathleen McGurl lives near the sea in Bournemouth, with her husband, sons and cats. She began her writing career creating short stories, and sold dozens to women’s magazines in the UK and Australia. Then she got side-tracked onto family history research – which led eventually to writing novels with genealogy themes. She has always…

  • Author Interview – Meet Carys Jones

    This week Carys Jones, author has agreed to answer my Author Interview questions. Carys has written three books about attorney Aiden Connelly in her Avalon series and Prime Deception. She is also about to branch out into Young Adult fiction with her first book, Dare to Dream due out soon. You can find synopses of…

  • Freelance Interview with Sarah Arrow of Sark e-Media

    Sarah Arrow of Sark -Media has agreed to be my next interviewee. I hope you enjoy her answers as much as I did. Name: Sarah Arrow Writer Alias (if you are willing to let us know) I have several, including Sarah Stanton, Danielle Stanton, Danielle Field and few others that I’d rather not mention. How…

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