Month: October 2022

2nd drafts: a few hints.

Writer Neil Guiman once said that the purpose of a second draft is to make it look like you knew what you were doing in the first draft.  I know exactly what he meant.  I tend to write quite quickly, with a book roughly every four months, each […]

Where to next for Saltbury?

My writing is in an interesting position at the moment.  I have one ‘Saltbury Chronicles’ book (‘Gold’) totally finished and ready to publish, but it can’t go out yet.  It was an idea I wrote out of sequence well over a year ago now, so there are two […]

Hazel and Annie.

The dynamics of a relationship are always interesting to write.  Is there a leader and a led, or are we dealing with true equals?  Maybe things are more complex: one partner may tend to dominate in certain areas, and the other in others. But what if things change […]