Archive for the 'Writing Hints' Category

I have a new laptop computer. Yay! My old laptop was just over six years old and was getting really, really slow. I mean – r e a l l y s l o w. There wasn’t much space left on the hard drive either, which was causing me a few headaches too. That’s all [...]

I am currently taking a short break from my writing. I am on a much needed holiday visiting my son and daughter in law in Sydney. It is also a great opportunity to get to know my grandson a little better too, and at 19 months he is cuteness personified – and that’s a completely [...]

Many would be writers fail before they start. They fail because they have not learned the basics of the craft of writing. They assume that they can write a best seller on the basis of their ability to string together a few words. They have not done their apprenticeship in the craft of writing. Then [...]

At long last I have returned to do some concentrated editing and rewriting of the children’s novel I wrote last year. This is the novel I am writing for my Master of Arts in Creative Writing degree. It is now in its 7th draft (and counting). You can read about how I went about the [...]

From where for you draw your inspiration as a writer? I guess there are as many answers to that question as there are writers! It always intrigues me when writers say that they don’t know what to write about. I rarely have that problem. I can see ideas for writing all around: in the every [...]