Ah, the joy of editing. Today I have been working on my 12+ novel. It’s a complex beast and keeping an eye on all the various threads in it is always rather a challenge, but this morning I spotted one of those unwanted beasts – the plot hole. Missed by me over all five draftsContinue reading “Worse before it gets better.”
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Nano Cheering!
Anyone out there doing Nanowrimo this year? If you are, then I’m cheering you all the way to that 50k victory. If you’ve never heard of Nanowrimo, it’s a fun project for writers in the dark days of November. Nanowrimo is short for National Novel Writing Month. You pledge to write, during the 30 daysContinue reading “Nano Cheering!”
Moving the books around.
Tonight I spent a very happy couple of hours in a bookshop. After hours. There is something rather special about being in a bookshop when it’s closed that I can’t quite put my finger on. This evening I was there for a poetry reading (Katherine Stansfield’s excellent Playing House, out today), so there was wineContinue reading “Moving the books around.”
New Arrivals!
Well what a year it’s been! Just over a year ago I entered a competition run by Firefly Press to find a book for children set in contemporary Wales. I sent in a story about a young boy called Tomos who finds King Arthur in a cave and wakes him up, thinking that Arthur willContinue reading “New Arrivals!”
Sarah Todd Taylor 