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 “the state of feeling healthy and happy” by the Cambridge …
Tomorrow, I’ll be heading up to Nine Worlds Geekfest at Heathrow, London. I’ve posted about conventions before – blogging about what I wish I’d known for my first convention and five tips from my second convention. It’s been particularly interesting attending a different convention …
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 let you in on a little authorly secret. Ready? When …
It’s that time of year again — time to talk about Ellie Di Julio‘s Forgotten Relics series. I’ve been blessed to be one of Ellie’s beta-readers for each of these books, and I thoroughly recommend them. Considering how much I loved …
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 have a happy ending. Sometimes the stories we love are …
Final panel of the final day. After the Worldbuilding workshop, a panel about editing moved into the room. My Notes – The panel discussed the difference between a structural edit (do the characters and world building hold together?), a line …
