Reading is always a good idea - to quote Stephen King from his book On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft - "If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, …
Continue reading Why you should be reading as well as writing
When you think of a writer, the traditional picture in your mind is to see them surrounded by coffee, loose pages, a typewriter and of course, books all around them in heaps and piles. Most people know that as time changes, so does the equipment, but one thing that never changes for a writer is …
When talking to people about what we like doing or something we're good at, very often we talk about who in our family you 'got' the skill from. It's one of those weird little things that always gets me wondering... I don't know if I got given any skills from my family directly... for instance, I didn't …
