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Getting Organised: Part I

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Naming Your Files   Here’s something which shouldn’t be so hard. Yet it is. And it makes me angry. How do you name your files when you’re writing? Well, that … Continued

Research for Writers

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This time last year, just about the only writing I was doing was shopping lists and putting my baby’s check-up appointment times into the calendar. As a new mother, writing … Continued

NaNoWriMo Lessons

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Last October, when my daughter was almost a year old, I decided that after a year of minimal progress on my writing projects, it was time to get back into … Continued

The Delicate Relationship

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Writing is a solitary profession … right? You wake up each day, write, and at some indeterminate point in the future, you shape the story, shake out the dead leaves … Continued

A Lofty Goal

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If you’ve been a regular reader of [untitled], then you’ll know that we started it (way back at the end of 2008) as a vehicle for mainstream and popular fiction, … Continued