Category: Miscellaneous
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Here’s to 2016: What I’m Getting Done This Year
It’s almost beyond parody these days to write a “new year, new me” post. It’s almost as much beyond parody to think that the changing of a calendar is meaningful enough for serious life change – the traditional New Years Resolutions never last beyond a few weeks, and they’re usually the same vapid “I’ll be…
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Meet The Agents – Event Insight
Earlier this month I was happy to attend an event organised by the Writers Guild of Great Britain where a panel of agents gave a talk about common themes that writers starting on the great literary journey may want to be aware of as they set out to carve a career in writing, followed by…
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Start Writing Fiction: Halfway point
I’m now halfway through the 8-week course Start Writing Fiction that I have undertaken as part of an initiative to gain more insight into the craft behind my writing, and it’s been going quite well! It’s weird, but on reflection I definitely feel that I’ve penned myself into a corner as a “sci-fi writer” –…