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10/04/2021
How I destroyed ‘Other People’s Lies’ to create something better Some of you may remember I finished my third novel – provisionally called Other People’s Lies back then – last year. Roundfire Books (who published my first two novels) offered […]
04/04/2019
The Pursuit of Ordinary a finalist in The People’s Book Prize Writing is full of ups and downs, confidence and self-doubt. If you ever want to see a writer embarrassing himself by publishing a blog article while in the ‘low, I’m […]
02/01/2019
Write for the love of writing I’m such a dick. I barely wrote a word in 2018 and I’ve just looked at my website and realised I also haven’t written a blog article since May 2018 and even that was […]
25/01/2017
Over-editing, a writers invisible enemy? Over-editing, worse, perhaps, than the writer’s other well-fed demon: keeping hold of your ‘darlings’ and not editing enough. On the days when confidence is low, it’s tempting to decide your work isn’t good enough. Perhaps if […]