You have probably never heard of Bezalel and Oholiab, but I have been thinking a lot about them recently. They appear once in the Bible,...

Hello! My name is Holly and I write under the pen name HL Bernabe. Sue so sweetly asked me to do a guest blog for her and I couldn’t say...

One of the reasons I love the fantasy genre is because it takes you out of this world, with its wars, injustices, and strident opinions,...

When I first started writing, I gave up reading fantasy stories for reasons I explain here. I didn’t feel confident as a writer to able...

December was a bleak month for me creatively. I found myself unable to write a blog post, let alone work on my novel. I had no ideas, no...

You don’t have to be writing long before you hear about an annual event called NaNoWriMo. Short for National Novel Writing Month, the US...

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a pantser – someone who doesn’t plot the stories before starting to write. This means I am often surprised...

I saw something today that made me sit up in horror. Don’t worry. This isn’t a graphic blog of the baser nature of the human soul....

Many people would love to be a writer. Some of them even have a go. A few of them might actually finish a story and a handful will go on...

It is just over a year since my first book went live on Amazon, and I’m amazed at how things have snowballed since that first foray into...

Whether I am at a speaking event, or just chatting to someone about being a writer, one question invariably gets asked: How do you come...

Life has a nasty habit of getting in the way of writing. Unmanageable back pain at night has meant a lack of sleep and feeling...

This week I had the privilege of critiquing a fledgling authors work. She had written 2,000 words and, feeling stuck, asked for someone...

What happens next? That’s a question I’ve been asking myself for days now. My characters have reached a place where their biggest...

Last year, for the first time, the Winchester Writer’s Weekend decided to trial a Writer’s Circle package as part of their online...

This month has been a real struggle. My Dad's health is failing, and although I am not close enough to take part in any of the care and...

One of the things many agents ask you to do is compare yourself to published authors who are current and commercially successful. They...

I looked at the clock and groaned. 3.30am. Instead of being blissfully asleep I was wide awake with yet another idea for a story. I'm...