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Publication News and Character Voice

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Hope you had a lovely weekend. Good one here despite the weather. Managed to get some stories submitted for competitions. Hope to look at a good competition guide I have to pick others to have a try at soon. All good for encouraging the imagination.

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Hope you’ve had a good day. Murky and grey again today but not as cold as yesterday. Lady and I weren’t sorry about that.

Don’t forget I’ll be interviewing the great Gill James on Chandler’s Ford Today on Friday to discuss her new book, Natascha’s Story. Gill is author, editor, and publisher and is the brains behind CafeLit, Bridge House Publishing, Chapeltown Books and more.

As well as discussing writing for the younger end of the children’s market. Gill will be sharing thoughts and advice which will be useful to any writer so do check this out when the post goes out later this week.

Writing Tip: If you’re thinking of having an author newsletter, think about what you would want to see in it if you were receiving it rather than writing it. Seeing things from the viewpoint of your audience is so useful (and for your fiction and non-fiction writing elsewhere too).

As well as the content itself, think about how you would want the newsletter to look. Keep it uncluttered but with plenty of interesting things for your reader such as text boxes, bullet points, photos (suitably sourced of course so either use your own or use a free to use photo site such as Pixabay), and white space to make it a pleasure to read.

Gaps (white space) matter because what you don’t want is a huge block of text hitting your reader in the eye. Trust me, it’s off putting and won’t make readers want to read on.

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It’s a lovely start to the week for me as I have a new story up on CafeLit called Freedom. Hope you enjoy it. Find out here if Goldilocks really is a reformed character or not.

Hope the day has gone well for you. Busy one here so it is now especially nice to be back at my desk and start writing. Have a couple of stories to review this evening ahead of submitting them for competitions.

Character Tip: How do I know when I have got my character’s voice right? It’s when I can write their dialogue knowing this is exactly what they would say given the circumstances I’ve put them in. Everything rings true.

Sure, later, I’ll tidy that dialogue up as there will be things to strengthen and correct but I will know I’ve got the voice right. This is another reason why I need to know their major trait because a lot of their attitudes and therefore what would say and think comes from that.

Another grim and drizzly day. Lady and I made it around the park in record time. Even she wasn’t sorry.

Writing wise, I’m looking forward to sharing a fabulous author interview with Gill James on Chandler’s Ford Today next week. Amongst other topics, we’ll be discussing the joys and challenges behind her latest book, Natascha’s Story, which is aimed at they younger end of the children’s market. Plus Gill will be sharing wonderful writing and marketing tips plus much more besides. Do look out for this next Friday. Plenty for writers of all genres to enjoy.

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Pleased to have got stories reviewed and submitted over the weekend. This coming weekend, I hope to look through and pick a couple of other competitions to try.

Plus I will need to think about stories for competitions I usually enter soon too. With competitions coming up in May, June etc it is about now I will look through stories I’ve already drafted and check to see if any are suitable. Often I find something which is and so polish that up and send it in.

Sometimes I will think not and create something new but I do make sure I write new stories throughout the year so I always have a stock to refer to like this. I’ve found it pays (and it is lovely when I find a story which will suit a competition theme – think square peg and square hole here! Very satisfying whether or not it goes on to do anything in the competition itself. You can only give these things your best shot and you do have to be in it to have any chance of winning it).

It has been a grey murky Monday,. But I was cheered by having a story up on CafeLit today (see my other page for the link to that – see above). But of course I am also cheered whenever I share another YouTube video. Hope you like my latest on here called Proportion.

Has Glenda blown things out of proportion or have she and Dave really got a witch stuck in their chimney, broomstick and all?

 

I enjoy submitting stories regularly to Friday Flash Fiction because it has (a) got me back to writing 100 word stories regularly and (b) I like having a deadline (to be in for the following Thursday) to stick to as I find having any deadline means I am more likely to get something written and submitted. 

Competition deadlines are useful for the same reason. You know you have to meet the date to have any chance at all.

Many thanks too for the comments in on my latest story on FFF – Come Back.
It’s going to be flash fiction Saturday afternoon for me this week as I’m out at a village/church event tomorrow. I do hope the weather picks up a bit in time for that!

The challenge of flash fiction is in coming up with so many different and interesting characters. It is the bit I enjoy the most as I’ve always loved creating people for stories.

The first thing I need to know is what makes my character tick because from that I can work out whether they’ll be interesting enough to write about. It is a bit like casting the right person for the right role in a play. Get it right and it will work seamlessly. If you don’t, however, readers/audience members will find your character hard to believe/get behind. (And you as the writer will find to harder to write the story up with any enthusiasm).

When I know what makes my characters tick, I want to feel like I cannot wait to write their stories up. This is a great sign. It shows you that you do have something to work with here and you will be more inclined to get on and do it.

Certainly this has been my experience. So a little time taken out to work out the character first pays dividends, I find.

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Of all the inventions created by mankind, books are one of the best. I cannot imagine a world without books. Nor do I wish to be able to do that.

Books entertain, educate, inform, can show us plenty about this world we won’t get to find out any other way (not all can travel as freely as they’d like for example), and take us to worlds which will never exist but which are fun to visit for the purposes of a story. I’m thinking Middle Earth and Discworld amongst many others for that!

I never mind about the book’s format. I just want a good story for fiction. For non-fiction I want an interesting narrative which keeps me gripped by the subject. Most of my books are paperback (my favourite format) but I cherish my hardback, audio books and ebooks just as much. All have their advantages.

I have various books I re-read during the course of a year, though for some if I have the story as a film, I will take the story in again that way. I often rewatch Hogfather by the late great Sir Terry Pratchett. I can then read another book by him or another author, having taking in a story I know I will want to take in again at the right time of year, in this case just ahead of Christmas.

But I fervently believe you have to have the books in the first place!

And if you want to check out books and authors new to you, why not check out what your local library has to offer? They are full of the most marvellous books, books, books!

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The Writing Life, Writing Blurbs, and Killing the Mood

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What a soggy start to a new week! Oh well at least Lady dries quickly. Writing wise, I’m looking at Making the Most of a Writing Event for Chandler’s Ford Today on Friday and it won’t be long before I am their arts correspondence once again as I’ll be off to see The Chameleon Theatre Group’s latest production, Bleak Expectations, soon. Well, the weather is certainly bleak at the moment but I am expecting plenty of laughs as the show as it is based on the radio show of the same name which went out on air some years ago. Should be fun.

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Hope you have had a good day. Lady and I didn’t get soaked today so we’ll take that as a win.
Looking forward to the Association of Christian Writers Flash Fiction Group meeting next week. Maybe summer, my theme for this, will be back by then? I can but hope!

Writing Tip: I draft presentations such as the one for the ACW group well in advance and then go through it nearer the time, having rested it for a bit. As with my story writing, that gap gives me time to see if I’ve missed anything and/or if there’s anything useful I could add in and so on. It pays off.

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Lady did get to see one of her chums, the Hungarian Vizler, today despite the awful weather. We all hope it is better tomorrow. Has anyone got Noah on speed dial?

Am preparing drafts for future flash fiction competitions. Deadline – end of August so I will aim to have something submitted by just before I go to Swanwick or shortly after I get back again. Will ensure I have time to spare and I always like that.

Then I will look out for autumn deadlines for flash competitions. After that, it will indeed be time for the festive flash season again. Yes I know. (Have not spotted anything to do with that particular season yet. It is a matter of time though! I remember always getting fed up when I was a kid when I spotted the Back to School signs in the shops and I’d only just broken up for the six weeks break. I swear this is worse now).

Will be interviewing the lovely Val Penny for Chandler’s Ford Today again soon. More details nearer the time.

Am also busy editing at the moment but the great thing with all of this? I stay in the warm and dry to do it!

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Hope you’ve had a good day. Saw a lovely kite in the shape of a US plane flown in our park today. Looked fabulous when in flight. Lady doesn’t know what to make of kites so stays well clear which is no bad thing. We also get red kites in our area. You can tell when they’re about. The smaller birds disappear!

Writing wise, will be enjoying flash fiction Sunday today. I always start a story with the question who am I going to write about because for me a story is all about the character, who they are, and what happens to them/because of them. Even when I’m given or I generate a potential opening line, I am thinking who would be the best character to “serve” that line.

When it comes to my Chandler’s Ford Today or Writers’ Narrative posts, I think along the lines of what would serve a reader best. So, whatever I write, I have the reader in mind all the time and that’s good. I’ve found it helps me focus on only those things the reader needs to know or would find useful to know.

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Hope your weekend has got off to a good start. Mixture of sunshine and soggy here.

Will be looking at Making the Most of a Writing Event for Chandler’s Ford Today next week and share useful tips on this. A lot of those tips will also apply to online events. Timely one to write about given in August I’ll be at The Writers’ Summer School, Swanwick. I also hope to get to an Association of Christian Writers day event in October too.

I remember – too many years ago to count now! – going to my first ever writing event and being so nervous about it. But I had a lovely time, learned loads, met my now publisher there too (and neither of us could have foreseen that one). Have not looked back since. If there is a writing event of use to me I can get to I’ll go!

As well as being a delegate at Swanwick, I am also one of the course tutors. I’m running a two part course on Editing as an Author, Editing as a Competition Judge. Looking forward to this and every aspect of Swanwick week. I come home refreshed, reinvigorated, and absolutely shattered. Now that is a sign of a great writing event!

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Happy with a draft flash for a competition I’ve got in mind to enter next month but have already seen where I can sharpen it. A bit more of a gap resting it and I will see more to sharpen but that is the nature of the beast.

Where I’m happy with the draft is knowing I’ve got the character voice right and am always happy when I’ve got that nailed down. Everything else is then looking at whether I’ve expressed things as well/as tightly as I can and there is always something I can tweak usefully. But the first draft is exactly that.

Shakespeare didn’t write a perfect first draft. I know I won’t either! It is all in the edit, folks!

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It’s Monday. It’s a wet Monday. So wet even Noah is wondering whether it’s time to set sail again. Definitely time for a story then. Hope you like my latest on YouTube – Killing the Mood.

 

Despite being used to write to tight word counts, writing the blurb (say for my Tripping the Flash Fantastic page on Amazon) still took time to craft.

I focused on what led me into writing flash fiction at all, then picked some highlights from the book to share, and flagged up it was a follow up to From Light to Dark and Back Again. I did this in under 70 words but it took ages to hone it down that tightly.

Was worth doing though. It sums up everything a potential reader has to know and having that in the back of my mind helped a lot.


Allison Symes loves reading and writing quirky fiction. She discovered flash fiction thanks to a Cafélit challenge and has been hooked on the form ever since. In this follow-up to her “From Light to Dark and Back Again”, Allison will take you back in time, into some truly criminal minds, into fantasy worlds, and show you how motherhood looks from the viewpoint of a dragon. Enjoy the journey!

Once you’ve got a potential line or two like this down for your own books, read them out loud. Hear how they flow. Can you simplify your lines without losing anything important? Editing comes into this too!

 

Given the weather is so changeable again – yes, I know it’s July, someone needs to tell the weather systems this – why not take the chance to catch up with your reading? At least that’s not weather dependent!

I love reading flash fiction as well as writing it and am often inspired by the wonderful stories I come across. Every writer needs to feed their own imagination and the best way of doing that is to read widely, in and out of your genre, and do include non-fiction.

Sparks for story ideas have come from non-fiction articles for me before now. Keep your imagination pool wide and deep and always topped up is my motto!

The other huge advantage to being a writer who reads well is you know what works well for you when you read something by someone else. You can work out why that is too. You can then apply that to your own writing. Win-win there I’d say.

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Goodreads Author Blog – Reading Acrostic

R = Read widely and well – every writer is advised to do this but why leave it just to writers?
E = Enjoy a wide range of genres and discover the wonderful world of non-fiction.
A= Authors cross all ages and genres in their work so why not discover their crated worlds?
D = Discovering a genre and/or writer new to you, whose work you like, is a great joy.
I = Imagination, inspiration, intricate plots, immense and amazing characters – what’s not to like?
N = Novels, novellas, short story and flash fiction collections – why not try them all?
G = Gives you good opportunities to read contemporary works as well as the classics.

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The link below this time is to the October 2023 edition of the magazine which had a horror theme to it (well, it was Halloween month!). My article here was on Writing Horror: The Telling Details.

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Character Types and Story Essentials

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Busy day on the blogging front. Firstly, my CFT post is about Signs of Spring– the ones I love and some I loathe. Comments as ever welcome on the CFT comments box.

Image Credit:  All the images are from Pixabay as usual, do see the CFT and More than Writers’ links for the captions I put to these originally.  Hopefully the pictures will intrigue you.  I love the one showing clocks going off into space!

 

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Secondly my spot on the Association of Christian Writers’ More than Writers blog is about When Writing is Difficult. I share some hints and tips. Hope you find them helpful.

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Had a lovely mini-Swanwick meet up with the fab JuneWebber in Winchester today. Lovely weather, great company, and lots of talk about writing and stories. Now that is what I call a good day. Looking forward to Swanwick itself in August of course.

My CFT post this week will be a seasonal one, all about the signs of spring I love (and a couple that I loathe). Link up tomorrow.

Have almost got my 750-word story ready for submitting. I always find the first edit to reduce word count is the easy one. I take out my known wasted words, find ways of rephrasing things etc and that brings the word count down significantly. The hardest edit is when I’ve done all this and I still need to reduce the word count yet without “losing” the story itself. Almost there though.

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Righty-ho, on to the final section of my What I Like From a Good Book A to Z.

U = Uniqueness. There must be something about the book that makes it stand out (and most of the time this will be down to how good the characters are. I’m on the characters’ side in the character -v- plot debate because a weak character will drag down a strong plot. I think it is the “cast” people remember from a good book, rather than the plot. How often have you said, when asked if you’ve read a certain book, something like “oh is that the one with so-and-so in it?” I know I have, too many times to count!).

V = Variety (of pace). I want plenty of fast paced action/dialogue etc but I also want the “in between” bits which move the story on, tell me what I need to know, and give me chance to get my breath back before the next action scene.

W = Writing that is a sheer pleasure to read because it flows. Yes, clever lines are wonderful, but it is the overall effect I’m after here. You want to feel at the end of the book that the writing couldn’t have been better (whoever said writing is easy hasn’t done any!).

X = Xeno. Okay, confession time. I looked this one up. It means strange. I wasn’t going to cheat by using eXtraordinary for this one or anything like that and X-rated seems too easy! So then, strange (oh and trust me I’ll be remembering xeno the next time I play Scrabble!) – well I love quirky fiction so this ties in beautifully with that. I love stories of strange creatures and worlds BUT they have got to make sense within that setting and still have something we can identify with to make us want to read on to find out more. So xeno or being strange has its place in a good book but it has got to be integral to it and not an add-on.

Y = Yield. An odd one to choose? I don’t think so. A good book at the end of it should have yielded to you the reader an enjoyable read when all is said and done. For me it is always the characters that make a book work or not. Also it is interesting to follow characters working out when they should yield on a point to develop the story or to get themselves out of a big hole. Whatever the reason for a character yielding or changing their mind, there should be a justified reason for it.

And finally…

Z = Zero. This is in terms of feeling that absolutely no words have been wasted. There is nothing that could be changed without spoiling the story in some way.

Happy reading!

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I find I have to know the voice of my character before I can really get into the story and do it justice. This is where outlining is so useful.

For flash fiction, I often find a line or two about what the character’s attitude to life is and why is a good place to start. I soon know whether a character is bossy but kindhearted with it, a pain in the neck to all and sundry etc. I see this kind of prep work as essential. It’s just that novel writers have to do more of it!!

Says it all really and applies to non-fiction equally as fiction. Image via Pixabay.
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Books invite you into their world. Image via Pixabay
A good interview will bring the best out of the interviewee.
A good adaptation will confirm images the reader has already conjured up from the original material. Pixabay image.
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Good advice – and it applies to our characters too. Image via Pixabay

Themes for any story are best kept simple to (a) avoid overegging the pudding and (b) avoid you managing to tie yourself up in knots as you write the thing.

The strongest themes can often be condensed to one word only – love, revenge, justice, adventure etc.

The best plot lines are exactly that – a line. For example:-

Mother vows to avenge child killed by drunk driver. (My Punish the Innocent).

Villager vows to stop the animal cruelty going on at home. (My The Circle of Life)

Now the nice thing here is the take you put on these themes is up to you. Punish the Innocent is a serious crime story. Couldn’t really be anything else I feel.

For The Circle of Life, I turned this into a humorous story (my character finds a very neat way of thwarting his fellow villagers who don’t share his views).

The great thing is to have fun with what you write. I’m convinced it does show through in what you produce.

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There can be reality behind fairytales. Image via Pixabay (and image used as part of book trailer for From Light to Dark and Back Again)
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Fantastic day out today as a post-birthday treat with better half and Lady at West Bay in Dorset. Lovely weather. Good time had by all. All shattered.

But time to do something different every now and then is useful both in terms of health but also for your writing. You do come back to it refreshed and that’s important. I see writing as very much a long haul thing and stamina is needed (to cope with the rejections and other disappointments along the way for one thing). So breaks away can help with that enormously.

Another way of giving yourself a break, when going to the beach is not immediately available as an option (!), is to give yourself time to free write, brain storm, jot down notes for future ideas etc. I find this great fun, put said thoughts aside for a while and come back to them later. If the ideas still appeal (and they don’t always), I then write them up!

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I love books you read straight through from cover to cover but I also adore those where you dip into them as and when.

Things like the Guinness Book of Records come into that category. I’m currently reading a “big book of facts” produced by Classic FM but will almost certainly have regular dips into this, rather than read it straight though. (To be fair it is a HUGE book).

I also like the way this mixes up my reading a bit as I read flash fiction (as well as write it), short stories, and novels. I also dip read. Dip reading is also useful when I’ve finished a book and am not quite sure what I’m going to read next.

I often fancy a change of mood after completing a novel and until I know what is next on my reading “menu”, I will dip into books like this until such time as I do know.

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Fairytales With Bite – Favourite Character Types

This is by no means a definitive list and I suspect you could add many of your own but my favourite character types include:-

1.  The underdog. (Most of the fairytales have good examples of these.  Cinderella is not expected to do well by her stepmother and stepsisters!).

2.  The character who is not expected to be a hero but becomes one.  (Frodo Baggins is a great example).

3.  The rebel (especially one who can see through the faults of their own side and has tried to rectify them but to no avail.  My fairy godmother character, Eileen, is of this ilk.  Characters like that are great fun to write for).

4.  A well rounded animal character.  I have a soft spot for anthropomorphism. Where would The Wind in the Willows be without it?! I also adore Gaspode in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld.

5.  Those who deal out justice to those worthy of receiving it!  This is usually where some character thinks they’ve got away with something and our hero/heroine turns up to prove them wrong. Or it can be someone like Terry Pratchett’s Lord Vetinari who deals out what he feels is appropriate justice (and is usually right.  Look at how he deals with Moist Von Lipvig in Going Postal).

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The A to Z of Story Essentials Part 3

Moving on from last week then…

K = Killer Lines.  The ones that make you gasp, laugh out loud, or simply make you wish you could’ve written something that good!  Use them as inspiration to do exactly that!

L = Logic.  A strange thing to put for this perhaps?  I think not.  A story must make sense, even if it set in the most fantastical place imaginable.  The characters must make sense.  Your story needs a structure that follows through from start to finish.  So the story then must have its own internal logic.  Anything that doesn’t “feel” like a story when claiming to be one will, I think, put readers off.  We have expectations that stories will work and it is because the logic of them works.

M = Murder.  I do love a good crime story and most of those are based on murder.  But this can be applied to other genres here if you take murder to mean “killing your darlings” if they’re in the way of your story. When you read of the death of a character in a story, there should be a point to it and move the story onwards.  A character that doesn’t do anything for the story should not be in it and good writers will ensure their characters do earn their place.  Sometimes that will mean literally killing them off as part of the story.  Sometimes it will mean realising this character isn’t strong enough so back to the drawing board for one that is!

N = Narrative. Should be compelling, drive the story on, tell the reader things they need to know in a way said reader is going to find entertaining (no lecturing!) etc.

O = Overwhelming Odds.  I do love a character that has to face up to these and overcome them.  It is fascinating to find out how they do it. It should also show depth to that character and it’s even better when the character is surprised as they look back at how far they’ve come on, what they’ve been able to achieve etc. Incidentally the overwhelming odds can be something as dramatic as Frodo Baggins’ quest in The Lord of the Rings but it can be something which, to us, might seem mundane, but to your character is everything.  As long as reader knows it really is everything to that character and why, they should want to find out whether the character overcomes or not.

More next time…

Characters seeking to change the world are often on a physical journey too. Image via Pixabay.
Getting work right takes time
Always time and space for the pen and paper method of drafting
A clean sheet can lead to some fascinating characters and stories. Image via Pixabay
Writing to screen. Am using smartphone more for this.
Fiction is strengthened when backed by fact. Image via Pixabay
There can be reality behind fairytales. Image via Pixabay (and image used as part of book trailer for From Light to Dark and Back Again)
The wonderful world of writing should include non-fiction, which benefits from creative techniques too. Image via Pixabay.
Let those ideas flow! Image via Pixabay,
Books are wonderful – whether in print or electronic, whether as audio stories or told by a storyteller. Image via Pixabay.
What writing triggers will help you create your new worlds? Image via Pixabay
Plenty of books to be getting on with. Image via Pixabay.