…is that all authors have different processes and none of us are the same… Still relevant now and worth re-sharing. From September 2014: At the Saturday signing in London, we had a very brief chat about the writing process. And I don’t mean how much coffee/tea we drunk, but a quick show of the process…
Writing
A Day In The Life Of…
Brought to you with the combined efforts of Queen on Spotify repeat, a combination of pain killers and copious cups of tea. Normally I’d be out of the house at 6 am to go swimming – good for my knee and ongoing fight with weight loss… but, my shoulder/neck is incredibly sore today (chiropractor has…
The Pantser/Plotter question
I am a pantser. This means as a writer I write by *the seat of my pants*. I sit at my Mac and literally make stuff up as I go. There is no big plan for where a story is going, it just kind of happens. My editor says my first drafts sound like the…
I know there’s a murder but…
…I don’t plot in my writing, I am what people call a pantser. I have two guys, a vague idea of story and off I go. When I have tried to plot, and I know what is happening when, I get bored, and lose interest (I am so fickle). So, I like to meet my…
Three of My Favourite To Write Characters
Corey (Boy Banned) Corey was never meant to be on the spectrum. He was never meant to have autism. But when he reacted badly to the clothes he was asked to wear for the promo photos on SING UK, I couldn’t understand why. After all, you’d do anything to *make it*, right? Then it hit…
Three of My Favourite-To-Write Angsty Books
Oh my this is another hard one. You can’t beat the entire Legacy series for ultra-angst, but I guess I can’t just say the entire series as my answer for three books… LOL… (It was worth a try) Kyle (Legacy 1) This covers the entire series, Kyle, Gabriel, and Daniel. The three abused boys grown…
I love my job!
Had a very interesting chat with Sue Laybourn and we talked about loving what we do. I was told by like EVERYONE at 18 that no one makes money with writing – given this was 1985 – they were probably right. We didn’t have internet, kindle, etc, you were left with the publishing houses to…
Three of my favorite-to-write standalone books
When I first began writing, I had standalone ideas. Like the man with the tattoos that connected to the Oracle in Delphi. Or the soap opera of a businessman and a cowboy. Or the secret organization stepping in to keep people safe when others couldn’t. All of these turned into the start of either a…
Mental Health
I need an operation on my knee – I have a torn meniscus. I’d love to say I got this playing hockey, or running, or doing something else heroically physical, but no. I tripped up a tiny step. A very tiny step. Sighs. It’s been a year, and the pain is steadily worse, and finally,…
Ask The Authors…
What is one piece of advice you’d give to another writer just starting out that you wish you’d been told? Can I turn that on it’s head, and give the one piece of advice that I was given by Lori Toland way back in the mists of time when I first started writing? Just write….