If, like me, you have you been “writing a book” for ages but, you find yourself doing anything other than sitting down and actually writing, you might find this post useful. Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about how much I actually want to be a creative writer. While I claim to love creative writing, I rarely get on with it. Does this happen to you too? While I write a fair amount of non-fiction, my creative writing has…
Well, sometimes life happens and before you realise it, far too much time has gone by since your last post. Oops. Apologies dear readers. So, what has happened over the last year? Well, amongst other things, I’ve started three of those books on my reading list in the post Becoming A Better Writer. Even when life is busy and I’m on the go, I still find time to read. Though lately, I’ve noticed that I’m starting a lot of books,…
Becoming a better writer involves many things, including one of my favourite pastimes: reading. While I have always read, I have noticed that since I have been writing more fiction, I have become more demanding about what I read. By that I mean, if a book isn’t doing it for me, I’m likely to give up on it a lot earlier than I would have done before. I’ve also become more demanding about the writer’s mastery of language. Perhaps, this…