With all the blood, sweat and stress that went into my anthology story a rejection was not what I had hoped for…but no writer hopes for a rejection, do they?
Yes, Amulet of Kemet was rejected.
However, the good news is that they enjoyed the story a lot, and I have been asked if I [...]

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Last weekend I was in the library and a book jumped off the shelf and slapped me in the face. The cover of For One More Day by Mitch Albom is as plain as they come. In fact, if the book had been named anything else I think I would have thrown the [...]

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Not all your characters are important. They cannot all have the starring role, or even the supporting role, but they should be important in their own way to the story. With this in mind, how do we sort the characters into groups in order to find out who should be there and who [...]

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Many writers keep a notebook handy just in case a brilliant, or even a not so brilliant, idea comes to them while shopping, sitting in the doctor’s surgery, having a coffee, or while doing the chores. Ideas can pop into our heads at any moment. Some writers carry a notebook at all [...]

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I finished reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) about three or four weeks ago. However, due to a heavy editing schedule I had at the time I was unable to write a review of the book…until now.
With over 600 pages, the book is much longer than those I usually read. [...]

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Lee Carlon tagged me and I’m not sure if I should be thanking him or not - this looks like it’s going to be difficult. Here’s the rules of the meme;
1. Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves.
2. People who are tagged write their own blog post about their 8 things and post [...]

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In the publishing industry there are definitely ups and downs. Whilst I have been enjoying the “up” of a recent important submission, today I am saddened by a “down” and must announce the end of the 2005 Anthology project.
This project was the second time I co-ordinated an anthology on the message board. At [...]

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Last Thursday, I completed the final read through of my short story – Amulet of Kemet – and finally found the courage to submit it. No more changes can be made because it’s gone!
In the first hour, after pressing the “send” button, I felt quite sick in the stomach. What if a spelling [...]

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Since my post yesterday called Writing and the Internet, I’ve received several “goodbye” emails and a couple of comments that indicated the writer thought I was announcing the closure of this blog.
I must apologise for this misunderstanding as closing this blog is the furthest thing from my mind. Whilst I have finally pulled far [...]

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Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away there was once a girl who wanted to write. She wrote when her children went to bed. She wrote in her lunch hour. She wrote between putting loads of washing into the machine. Yes, she wrote whenever she had a spare moment and [...]

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