NaNoWriMo

As I said last week, I’m trying to decide which project I’m going to work on for NaNoWriMo this year. As usual, I have a choice of stories and I’ve narrowed it down to three. I’m taking a look at … Continued

It’s only a short time (48 days from today) until this year’s NaNoWriMo challenge starts and I’m already trying to decide which project I’m going to work on this year. This will be my ninth year of attempting to write … Continued

I don’t know if you’ve noticed it, but there’s often a point in any long-running series when you can tell that it has gone past its sell-by date. The plots start to repeat or lack originality, the characters just seem … Continued

Following my completion of The Safety of the Realm, I wondered what to do next. I had five possibilities, half-written stories that I wanted to get finished. After playing around with them for a few days, to see what inspiration … Continued

It hardly seems possible but my nineteenth novel will hit the virtual shelves on Saturday, July the first. I never thought it would happen but the ideas just seem to keep coming, faster than I can get them finished. I … Continued

Whenever I’ve had a few spare moments, or when inspiration was scarce for one of my novels, I’ve found myself working on a new project and a totally new style of writing for me. It’s a collection of short stories … Continued

One of the problems with having what’s referred to as an “active imagination” is that you get ideas faster than you can write them down. A couple of weeks ago, I told you about the half-finished novels that I’m desperate … Continued

It hardly seems possible but it’s a year since my novel, We Are Saul, hit the virtual shelves. The idea was based on an idea I had for a short story, which I called My Shadow and Me. And a … Continued