Tag: publishing
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Goal: Improving my Book Openings
New year, new retrospective on my strengths and weaknesses as a writer! In 2024, I made progress with plot, character arcs and incorporating themes into them. I learnt to dial up the environment and characters, and how to merge scenes so that they serve multiple purposes. I focussed on the climactic sequence and the resolution,…
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Writing in the Trenches
I got another rejection yesterday! That’s 3 for this project so far, so they’re trickling in steadily. In the meantime, I’m working on my next book. The scene outlines are almost finished, and I hope to start the zero-draft next week. Yet I am plagued – plagued, I say! – by worries that this one…
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Why don’t I write in my native tongue?
My first language is Welsh, and I don’t write in it. Apart from a near-constant quest to write a decent englyn, I haven’t written a piece of fiction in my native language since secondary school. I’ve barely thought about it. Why don’t I, though? That’s the question mam asked me a few months ago, making…
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