I've held off writing a post about The Hunger Games for a good reason, which I'll get to in a moment, but it was Limebirdmike from Lime Bird Writers with his naive and irritating article Young Adult fiction and "The Hunger Games" - did I miss something? that prompted me to write this. I'd seen …
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I have good news to share with you, dear blog reader, if you'll indulge me! Since my last post - Back Story - When should it be Front Story?, I decided to move the large slab of back story to the start of my novel. I'd like to say it was due to an …
Hey there dear blog reader, how ya doin? All fine and tickety-boo? Good to hear it. I know I haven't been around much lately to bring you my usual brand of snarky comments and witticisms, but I have an excuse. I've been writing and editing my novel, The Range. The lure of Imaginationland is hard …
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Before I get started on this post I'd like to wish my dad a Happy Father's Day! There's a card sat on our kitchen table, quite a funny one too, and I had every intention of sending it. Tomorrow will be fine, it'll get there. Oh crap. Forgot the card. I'll post it on my …
I've been nominated for a Kreative Blogger Award by the good folks at Whirling Point. I have a tendency to forget to write a post when I'm nominated for a blogger award, but not this time dear blog reader! There's an argument about social networking (yes, that includes blogging) that people are spending way too …
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