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  • Day 11: 30 Day Blogging Challenge: A Story, Part 1

    The Old House on the Hill The estate agent turned the key in the lock. The key was large, wrought iron and it took her two goes to turn it. The heavy lock clicked open. The woman, smart and professional, pushed open the door. It swept two months of mail to one side as it…

  • 30 Day Blogging Challenge: Day 9 Book Review: Writer Time Management Book by Kathleen McGurl

    I interviewed author Kathleen McGurl on my website last year. She has written hundreds of short stories and moved into writing full novels in the past few years. Her website is interesting and talks about her writing life, and among the books she has written, there is a time management book called, Give up Ironing…

  • Day 5 – Embarrassing Writing – Need to Keep My Work Secret

    I want to talk about something that I touched on yesterday in more detail today and that subject is: embarrassing writing. It’s something that I suffer from quite a lot. I am probably going to find that it is just me, and that everyone else is loud and proud about the fact they write, but…

  • Day 4 (30 Day Blogging Challenge) Plot Your Novel

    There are several schools of thought when it comes to plotting out a novel. The first one is: don’t plot your novel! For some people, the very act of sitting down and working out what the story is going to be about and the twists and turns of the novel takes away from the experience…

  • 30 Day Blogging Challenge -Day 1

    When I interviewed Sarah Arrow of Sark e-Media for this blog last year, I was impressed by her 30 day blogging challenge. The idea is to blog for 30 consecutive days – something I have not tried before. I kept coming back to the idea, but the time never seemed right. Now, in February 2016,…

  • Four More Qualities of Successful Freelance Writers

    Some people just find writing hard work. The physical effort of putting pen to paper or fingers to keypad just does not do it for them. They are unsure that what they are doing is correct and they find the very act of writing a chore. Other writers love it. They enjoy the physical act…

  • 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…

  • Meet Keith Havers – The Creative Writer Interview

    Keith Havers is a short story writer who has had stories published in Take a Break’s Fiction Feast, That’s Life (Australia), The Weekly News, People’s Friend and The Lincolnshire Echo. He also has a short story published in the charity anthology, ‘100 Stories for Queensland’. He is a member of the Trowell Writers’ Trust and…

  • Freelance Interview – Meet Kevin Carlton of WebsiteCopywritingServices.com

    Name: Kevin Carlton Website: websitecopywritingservices.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/Write_Online Google+: http://plus.google.com/+KevinCarlton LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kevincarlton Bio: Kevin is a freelance copywriter and blogger with a methodical and no-nonsense approach to writing copy. He is owner of UK-based SEO copywriting service Write Online, which helps businesses large and small get the most out of their online presence. He also provides…

  • 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…

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