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The Hokey Cokey of Book Writing

Thursday, April 5th, 2012

As you may or may not know, I’m currently writing a five book urban fantasy series on a very tight schedule, and at the same time releasing a short story every week up until the launch of the first book on November 1st. That’s 54 in total, the 23rd story was released yesterday. It’s clear [...]

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And then the demon caught up

Monday, February 27th, 2012

It’s been one of the most exciting fortnights of my writing life. So exciting in fact, that I haven’t blogged about it – I was too busy being in it. In short, the hardback of 20 Years Later has started popping up in Waterstones bookshops around the country and it suddenly all feels very real, [...]

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Developing a writing instinct

Thursday, February 16th, 2012

Now don’t worry, I’m not going to tell you how to do this, because if you’ve ever read any of my other Writer’s Rutter posts, you know I really don’t believe there is a single (or “right” – perish the thought!) way to do this writing thing. We’re all different, we wrestle this beast in [...]

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A dialogue with a demon

Monday, November 14th, 2011

I had a bit of a wobble last week. By wobble I mean a visit from my old friend the anxiety demon. He brought some friends and they had a loud party in my head. It was most unpleasant. Unsurprising though. Whilst I was launching the Split Worlds project I was also writing the first [...]

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How I wrote over 95,800 words in 34 days

Monday, November 7th, 2011

I almost deleted that title. I’m worried it sounds kind of sleazy, like a lead in to some sales pitch for a book that will teach you how to do the same thing too. It’s not. For one thing, I’m just going to tell you how I did it, without any kind of implication that [...]

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