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Novel Writing – Research: How much & when to do it …

Posted on November 14, 2017November 19, 2017 by Wayne

Weekly posts on Novel Writing with updates on the progress of my debut crime novel, Safe Hands, about an ageing safe cracker forced out of retirement for the sake of his dying wife and a son that hates his guts. This week I’m talking about Research – how much to do and when to do…

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Lord Of The Dead book by Richard Rippon and Obliterati Press

BOOK REVIEW – Lord Of The Dead by Richard Rippon

Posted on November 7, 2017 by Wayne

Oh, you do book reviews now, eh? If you have even a passing acquaintance with this blog, you’ll know that I don’t really do book reviews, but do give the odd recommendation here and there and love to share the work of other book bloggers in the Book Blogger’s Corner segment of The Joined Up…

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Novel Writing – Back on Track (again)

Posted on October 29, 2017 by Wayne

This is one of my weekly updates on the progress of my debut crime novel, Safe Hands, about an ageing safe cracker forced out of retirement for the sake of his dying wife and a son that hates his guts. In last week’s post I laid out the reasons for my poor writing performance (lack…

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Novel Writing – Fail to plan . . .

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Wayne

Last week I talked about the work I’ve begun on redrafting the beginning of my novel, ‘Safe Hands’ – focusing specifically on my opening chapter and prologue. This week, the ‘plan’ was to complete the structural work on the novel – by discarding the current end section and working out how and where to add…

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Novel Writing – Opening Chapters and Prologues

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Wayne

This is the latest of my weekly updates on the redrafting of what will be my debut novel, ‘Safe Hands’. You can find the story so far in this previous post. This week was all about revising my opening chapter. Like many of you reading this, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about whether…

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