Tag Archives: writing advice
On the Importance of Being Edited
Art by Kathleen Jennings
Approximately 142 years ago, I wrote this as a guest post over at the web-place of Mr Mark Barnes. It appears here now as it’s wandered home, somewhat drunk, and can’t
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Repost: Your Writing is Not You – or How to Interpret/Deal with Writerly Rejections
I’ve written before about rejections and how to handle the dent they make in your self-esteem, and I think it’s advice that bears revisiting from time to time. One thing any writer needs to develop (apart from mad writing skills and the ability
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Finding an Agent: the Ugly Truth
Art by Kathleen Jennings
Finding an Agent: the Ugly Truth[1]
by Angela Slatter
Literary agents manage, in theory, all the business of a writer’s work. This includes the submission, sale, contracting, publication, translation, production and reproduction. They act as
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How To Be A Writer
Art by Kathleen Jennings as always
So I was supposed to be answering interview questions, but for some reason I wrote this. Everyone’s experience and advice will be different, but this is mine.[1].
A writer
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Over at Write Through the Roof …
Madeleine D’Este asked me some questions over at Write Through the Roof, and I tried to provide answers that did not suck.
Despatches from KSP – Day 14: How to Commit Critique
Art by Kathleen Jennings
Despatches from KSP – Day 14: How to Commit Critique
Well, this will be my last Despatch from KSP! Tomorrow I head home to Brisneyland and my normal life.
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Meanwhile, over at Kaaron Warren’s place …
… I take part in her “Refreshing the Wells” series.
Angela Slatter is an astonishingly good writer. Her story in In Your Face is one of my faves of the year so far, and that’s only one of
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Despatches from KSP – Day 7
Art by Kathleen Jennings
I’ve written before about rejections and how to handle the dent they make in your self-esteem, and I think it’s advice that bears revisiting from time to time.
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Despatches from KSP: Day One
Welcome basket from KSP. Contains chocolate!
Travel is the great discombobulator.
We are taken out of our normal environment, sundered from our daily routines. Our habits, we find, are no longer easy. This can make
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Talking about believable characters
Over at the Queensland Writers Centre WQ Magazine, I talk about my Top Five Tips for Believable Characters.
Characters: we love them, we hate them, sometimes we want to be them, but the most important thing is that, no
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