Just me! 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 write what appeals... Continue Reading →
So how long is a book?
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 your novel to 80,000 words... Continue Reading →
Writing in accents and dialect
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 across to the reader without... Continue Reading →