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Parker and why we love an anti-hero

Posted on December 13, 2016 by Wayne

Richard Stark’s Parker novels offer the perfect anti-hero and inspired my own protagonist.

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Stuck on your WIP? Skip to the end . . .

Posted on December 5, 2016 by Wayne

Stuck on your WIP? Things getting a little like wading through treacle? My advice? Skip to the end! That’s exactly what I’ve been doing after a long spell of procrastination and self-doubt. http://67.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltslooUuel1r5ceufo1_500.gif Last time I gave you any kind of update, I was still in the honeymoon period of writing my second novel. 25,000…

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Writing a Novel – Are you a Pantser or a Plotter? I’m a PLANTSER!

Posted on November 7, 2015 by Wayne

Are you a ‘Pantser’ or a ‘Plotter’? It’s a question we writers seem to be obsessed with. It turns up on countless websites, forums and in many of our author interviews over at The Joined Up Writing Podcast. In case you somehow missed it, a ‘Pantser’ is someone who writes without any real plan –…

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Why you should write a logline for your novel

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Wayne

Following on from my previous post where I came out (of the novel-writing closet), I thought I would tell you a little more about the novel and share a tip I picked up from reading Save The Cat – a brilliant book about Screenwriting. It’s author, Blake Snyder, believes the one killer question you need…

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It’s a NOVEL – there, I said it!

Posted on October 24, 2015 by Wayne

Listeners to the Joined Up Writing Podcast may have heard me talking about my latest WIP – ‘a crime story’ is the way I have been describing it. And that’s exactly what it started out as – a short story. After a few thousand words I started occasionally using the word ‘Novella’ and today, in…

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Giving myself a stern talking to – Write Up to Date #5

Posted on June 15, 2015 by Wayne

It’s time to give myself a stern talking to. It’s been a few weeks since my last update and that isn’t good enough. I detailed the reasons for my malaise in that post, and won’t repeat them again. In any case, it doesn’t matter. For ‘reasons’ read ‘excuses’. The time for procrastination has passed. In…

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Finishing my First Draft – The End of The Beginning

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Wayne

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”          – Winston Churchill, 1942. Let’s skip forward a few decades. Wednesday May 29th, 2015. The day I finally typed ‘The End’ on the manuscript of the first draft of…

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Write Up to Date #4 – Coming Up For Air

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Wayne

If anyone has been paying attention, you will notice I am more than a week late with this post. Life and, unfortunately, Death pushed my writing to the sidelines for a while. Sadly, my Grandad passed away on May 1st. It was sudden, unexpected and in a foreign country, which complicated things even further. He…

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Write Up To Date #3 – He shoots . . . He misses!

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Wayne

   Let’s get straight in to it. Here were my aims for last week, along with the mixed bag of outcomes:- 1. Write minimum of 1500 words on novel – 300 words written. 2. Write minimum of 1500 words on crime story – 1100 words written. 3. Record, edit and release this week’s Joined Up…

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Write Up to Date Post#2 – The Nearly Man

Posted on April 19, 2015 by Wayne

It’s that time of week again. No excuses. Last week I set my writing goals for the week. Here’s a summary of what I was aiming to do – along with how I got on: 1. Write minimum of 1000 words of novel – ACHIEVED – 1200 words written. 2. Write minimum of 1000 words…

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