1. What is the most valuable piece of advice you’ve been given about writing? I actually had the most unhelpful advice and that was “no one wants poetry”. I would have two to three times the amount of poems without this advice, but I was too impressionable to realise. For fantasy, the most valuable adviceContinue reading “Author questions 1-5”
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Finding a First Chapter
It’s the second chapter that creeps in when you least expect it. Trying to get to first place. Yes, that’s how it starts. When you realise you jumped straight into the action without a lead in. Who does that? Well… The first attempt is not about being perfect, it’s about getting into the flow. ForContinue reading “Finding a First Chapter”
Avoiding Editing
No, I am not editing again. Well yes I am, but it’s one of those things where anything can be a distraction. I have never regretted editing. The finished product is always worth the toil. The cringing, the ‘did I really forget to a word how many times?’ I have a habit of leaving outContinue reading “Avoiding Editing”
Chantelle Griffin 