2017 :: Dawn Is Rising
“We have the chance to turn the pages over, we can write what we want to write.” I feel like a lot of us wouldn’t mind erasing 2016 from our memories, […]
5 Tips from my 7th NaNoWriMo
National Novel Writing Month is an odd creature. Most publishable novels are at least 70,000 words long, and it’s most common during an editing process to cut words, not add […]
Lessons in Editing Novels
In 2009, I wrote my first ‘novel’. In reality, it was a re-telling of a published story, only set in my University with bland characters and little to no plot. […]
Improving Your Craft: Awareness of Bad Habits
In 2012, I began a book called Wings of Skell. During re-writes, it was renamed Planes Shifter. As of May 2016, I own over 50 copies of the draft manuscript, and it’s […]
The Timeline of K. R. Green
It was a cold November; and my student house did not keep in the heat. Mould grew in patches around my bedroom window and even swept across the skirting board by […]
Fight Like A Girl Anthology :: Now Available
Some of you may remember that I wrote a short story last year for the female strength science fiction and fantasy anthology Fight Like A Girl, edited by Joanne Hall and Roz Clarke. My […]
Ready Player 3: Character Swapping for Fun and Profit
Today we have a guest post from Ellie Di Julio; author of the Forgotten Relics series, about how she picked point of view characters in her latest book. I’m going to […]
Twice Upon A Time: Anthology (Including My Short Story)
This weekend the anthology Twice Upon A Time launched, including my re-telling of the Welsh myth of Taliesin’s birth. Fairytales don’t always happen once upon a time. Fables don’t always […]
Discovering Writing Weaknesses
Every writer has strengths and weaknesses, and we learn what these are as we write. At some point, we realise just how many skills we don’t yet have. Sometimes we […]
FLAG :: BFS Nomination Giveaway!
For those who follow the British Fantasy Awards, you may know that one short-listed nomination for the Best Anthology is Kristell Ink’s Fight Like A Girl, edited by Joanne Hall […]
A Summer Writing Update
One of the most common questions new writers ask focuses on the ‘best‘ way to write. Whether this is a question of routines or order or projects, or even the […]
Level-Up! Essence of Green :: July 2017
“Faerie-folk gather in the woodland glades, and frolic beside moss-banked streams; the fires of summer burn green and gold, and everywhere there is high magick afoot!” – Michele Morgan July was […]
Writer’s Well-being 6 :: Meditation
As a Mental Health Practitioner, I have been experimenting with well-being exercises that support my writing, and I want to open up discussions about writer’s well-being. Well-being is defined as […]
Study Update
My post-graduate course is done. Over. Finished. Providing all goes smoothly… (fingers crossed!) This week has been exhausting, so no specific post for this week. I’ll probably reflect in […]
Plans for Reading 2017 :: Months 7-12
Those of you who have followed my blog since last year know I’m completing a university qualification while I work. My final deadline is in two week’s time, although having […]
Balancing Projects and Energy
My university portfolio is due in under 3 weeks, and although the actual pieces are completed, there are a lot of admin aspects such as ordering of pages, labelling sections […]
Level-Up! Essence of Green :: June 2017
“Nights are warm, and stars shimmer in the sky like a blacktop road in the noonday sun. Roses spill over garden gates, heavy with bees and perfume; field and forest […]
Writer’s Well-being 5 :: Writing Environment
As a Mental Health Practitioner, I have been experimenting with well-being exercises that support my writing, and I want to open up discussions about writer’s well-being. Well-being is defined as […]
Mental Space
I had planned to release a blog post on meditation for my writer’s well-being series, but with my laptop issues, university deadlines and some health stuff, I’d rather wait a […]
