I was asked ten questions by the author JS Clerk on writing, agents, perspective, voice, the Bestseller Experiment podcast, and all that good stuff. And here are my answers… You can see more of JS Clerk’s interviews here. TRANSCRIPT: Did you always want to be an...
Want to make your prose more punchy? Try cutting a few of those filler and filter words. Note: these aren’t hard and fast rules. Of course you can use adjectives and adverbs whenever you like. But if you’re editing, it’s not a bad idea to trim as many as possible....
Here are five tips for writing exposition without getting bogged down in, well, exposition… TRANSCRIPT: Hello, folks, let’s talk about exposition. I’ve got to the bit in my book where my protagonist figures out what the villain is up to and there’s a ticking clock and...
I’ve been working on a new way of writing the first draft of my novel. And it’s been working really well… so far… TRANSCRIPT: Hello, folks. Apologies for the hair. Still in lockdown and two weeks till I get a haircut, so this is going to get worse before it gets...
When you write, do you prefer to outline beforehand? Or write by the seat of your pants? I go for a walk without a map and discuss plotting versus pantsing. Beware: heavy-handed metaphors ahead! TRANSCRIPT: Hello folks, Mark Stay here. I’m on a walk today. One of the...
