It rarely does one good to be pessimistic but the tangled and seemingly endless relationship that is collaborative writing is even more complicated than I might have suggested in other blogs. The road to publishing success is not evenly paved…
Blog Archives
When is a novelist’s job complete?
Yes, when is a novelist’s job complete? That’s a tricky, almost unanswerable question, up there with ‘what is the sound of one hand clapping?’ or Bishop Berkeley’s old chestnut about the tree falling and no one being around to hear…
Posted in 2012, Writing Tagged with: Bishop Berkeley, Collaborative writing, editing, finishing a novel
Building Worlds and Making Rules
What is world building? Any act of creative writing is an act of world building. The moment we begin to tell a story, we are inviting our audience into a world that is not theirs. It may have enormous…
Posted in 2012, How-to's, Writing Tagged with: Bishop Berkeley, creativity, development of ideas, Diana Wynne Jones, genre, imagination, rules, setting, world building
