Developing your craft

Age: Old enough to be in a quarter-life crisis. Or is that too coy and millennial?

Hometown: Munich, Germany;...

For those who didn’t read my last blog post, here’s the story so far. I completed a novel called The Ruby Girls for NaNoWriMo 2012 and...

Now what? Any last-minute questions?

On Monday 28th October from 5pm-6pm, I'll be the Writers & Artists tweep in residence, ready to...

It is definitely worth doing scene by scene analyses of classic texts – be they novels, film scripts, or plays. This helps you get a...

It took me about 25 years to write my first novel. Yes, literally! The premise actually changed very little, although I took against the...

Who does it?

Everybody. NaNoWriMo is great for first-time writers who need the push to get started. But established writers also...