We at Pigeon Park Press are very excited about the upcoming novel, Circ, written by ten different authors as part of the Ten To One project. You can get your own tickets for the launch (and claim a free e-book…
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Interview with Circ author, Simon Fairbanks
Posted in 2014, Interviews Tagged with: Birmingham Writers Group, Circ, Full Fathom Five, Simon fairbanks, Ten To One
Ten To One Author Interview – Simon Fairbanks
Iain is currently acting as editor and cat-herder-in-chief on a collaborative novel with TEN (count them, TEN) writers. A contemporary story set in a tacky British seaside resort, the Ten To One novel will follow ten characters whose lives…
Posted in 2014, Interviews Tagged with: Birmingham Writers Group, Collaborative writing, Full Fathom Five, Iain Grant, Simon fairbanks, Ten To One, Titles
Index Card Games
I’ve used index cards (or file cards or postcards) as part of my fiction planning for at least the last ten years. They serve a number of really useful functions. Firstly, I can jot down on them ideas that I’ve…
Posted in 2012, How-to's, Writing Tagged with: artsfest, Birmingham Writers Group, building characters, collaboration tools, Collaborative writing, index cards, planning, plot
Feedback from Birmingham Writers’ Group
We had feedback this week on two of the chapters we’ve written for the Clovenhoof novel. To make life interesting, these were chapters three and six, as we decided it made more sense to start in the middle. We’re still…
Posted in 2012, Writing Tagged with: Birmingham Writers Group, Collaborative writing, criticism, feedback
A Writer’s Year
Okay, it’s post-Christmas and I’m considering my accomplishments as a writer in 2011. In fact, as it’s the season for lists, I listed them. Now, this is not a bragging list. I’m actually going to make a point here. Here’s…
Posted in 2012, Reflections Tagged with: artsfest, Birmingham Writers Group, dealing with failure, e-publishing, New Year Resolutions, selling your work
Tell me what you think. Be honest. I can take it.
Consider… Scenario A: My wife comes into the house, fresh from the hairdressers and says, “What do you think?” Scenario B: My wife shows me a hairstyle in a magazine that she is thinking of getting herself and says, “What…
When real people turn fictional
Inspiration comes from all manner of sources. This is an almost verbatim transcript of an e-mail conversation Heide and I have been having over the past week or so. Heide: I realised last night that for a couple of weeks…
Posted in 2011, Books Tagged with: archangels, Birmingham Writers Group, inspiration, nothing wasted for writers, St Michael
It’s not a Writing Group, it’s Therapy
I have a number of books on my shelf about the art of writing. Some of them are great reads, usually because they’re funny and enable me to laugh at negative writing traits I see in myself. ‘How not to…
Posted in 2011, Writing Tagged with: Birmingham Writers Group, books about writing, Joseph Campbell, Shaun Hutson, writing groups
Planning in more detail
Sharpies at the ready In order to do some more detailed planning, we met up to have a chat in a pub. Most of the discussion so far has been by email, or in the company of the rest of…
Posted in 2011, Writing Tagged with: arc story, Birmingham Writers Group, Collaborative writing, index cards, nothing wasted for writers, planning, plot, three act structure
