So, one day, after lots of ideas have been passed around and plans drawn up and several chapters written and hacked about, the collaborative writers wake up to the realisation that they’ve written a novel. Or at least something that…
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Four and a half things a good self-editor needs to do
Posted in 2012, How-to's, Writing Tagged with: arc story, Chekov's gun, Chuck Cunningham syndrome, editing, finishing a novel, Harry Potter, lampshading, Occam's Razor, plot
Curtain Calls and the Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
Now, I’m not a big theatregoer but I have a huge and perverse love for that most British of traditions, the Christmas pantomime. To explain the essence of pantomime to anyone who has never seen one is almost impossible but,…
Posted in 2012, How-to's, Writing Tagged with: building characters, Chuck Cunningham syndrome, curtain calls, finishing a novel, Frankenstein, pantomime, plot
