Yes there are dozens of things you can throw at writers. They’ll always find a use for notebooks, they’ll love a fancy pen (even if many don’t write with one…Continue reading5 Gifts for a writer
I’m off to New Hampshire to be a guest lecturer at the Odyssey Writing Workshop to give a class on building characters. I’d like to bring along some of my…Continue readingTelling off the author
It started last night. He turned up in my dream, Chalky, the protagonist of my current WIP. He’s nineteen years old, pushing twenty. He’s a kid who has had a…Continue readingA character tells me off