A two-biscuit problem
Any writer will tell you it’s hard work writing a novel. What’s even harder is the final edit, when you have to trim and prune and polish until the damn thing shines so bright it’s blinding....
View ArticleUnholy Trinity
So I’ve started on Book 2 of “The Wild Hunt Trilogy”, “Trinity Moon”. I confess, I’ve cheated a bit – there was a sub-plot in Book 1 that I was deeply attached to but it wasn’t deeply attached to the...
View ArticleWhose book is it anyway?
Terry Pratchett once said in an interview that you’ve got to keep an eye on your secondary characters, or they’ll take over the show. Turn your back for five minutes and there they are, merrily...
View ArticleSocks discrimination
… or “Whose book is it anyway?” Part Two. I was inspired to compose this post by a friend of mine, MM Bennetts, who feels not at all confident about writing female characters and was therefore somewhat...
View ArticleEchoes
As I’ve come to the end of Trinity Moon, I’ve found myself thinking about how it all began. As one so often finds, in endings are the echoes of the beginning and as I wrote these last few scenes I got...
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Same again?
Second books are tricksy things, as I’m sure any writer will agree. No longer can you meander along at your own pace, letting your story take shape as it will; you’re on a contract now, and you have...
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