I love a good horror story: not one connected with zombies or chain saws mind, but ghosts, vampires and witches are fair game. I don’t even mind a brush with the Prince of Darkness in fiction. So when an opportunity presented itself to submit a short story to a Halloween […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Okay – so I get you need to write what people will want to read. Fair enough. But I also believe that if your heart isn’t in it, it will be flat and boring and no one will want to read it anyway. As a writer, I would much rather […]
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes
When I was trying to decide if I could, in fact, write 50,000 words in stories for the medieval period, I went Google searching to see just what that looked like. In the process, I came across a great article outlining some reasons why you might be best to keep […]
Estimated reading time: 48 seconds
This is currently the bane of my existence! As a writer of historical fiction, and essentially, the lives of everyday people at the moment, I can hear them speaking to me in my head – but I often have no idea how to write it so that I get it […]
Estimated reading time: 1 minute