Again many apologies for the no-show last night. The bug that got me last week decided to put in a repeat appearance much to my annoyance! Still, hopefully all gone now.
FAIRYTALES WITH BITE
Awkward Questions can be fun to ask of yourself and your characters. In the case of the latter having someone ask them the questions that they didn’t want to be asked can be a great way of raising tension and guarantees conflict! But the questions must be significant enough to have a real impact, the kind of impact that will turn your story on its head. It also pays to ask yourself as a writer from time to time things like why am I writing this, is my meaning as clear as I think it is and so on.
THIS WORLD AND OTHERS
Writing Goals discusses why I review my writing performance in the post-Christmas run-up to the New Year. I also set some goals, some I know I won’t achieve in 12 months but I want to be well on my way to doing so in that time frame, which is the point of setting these! Others I will achieve. Other things happen that are unexpected bonuses. But writing goals down is, I’ve found, a good way to ensure I’m in with a reasonable chance of achieving said goals. I don’t really know why writing them down makes a difference. All I know is it does and that’s enough for me.
CHANDLER’S FORD TODAY
My post this week shares the news of local YA author, Richard Hardie, whose books, Leap of Faith and Trouble with Swords, are being stocked by local independent bookshop, P&G Wells of Winchester. It’s a real pleasure to promote a local writer and a local bookshop!
FACEBOOK PAGE
I discuss my upcoming Chandler’s Ford Today post and share a link to Southampton Writers’ Circle’s You Tube channel as they have kindly shared the Baubles trailer on this. Thanks, everyone, and hopefully see you again in 2017.
You really do enter another world when you read. Image via Pixabay
Allison Symes: Collected Works 