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Category: Writing

  • Some Pretty Exciting Game Night News

    Hi all, It’s coming up to a couple of years since Game Night was published, so now seems the right time to do something different. Something big. Something that will get it out there to all the people who not only haven’t yet read it, but haven’t yet even heard of it. We’re doing this.…

  • Three Pieces Of Creative Writing Advice For School Children

    Marie Phillips (@mpphillips), author of Gods Behaving Badly, tweeted the following this morning: Preparing my first ever day of Creative Writing teaching for teens for First Story http://bit.ly/aCq9A Any advice welcome! Well I figured I’d bash my advice out, random and uninformed as it is, as a blog post, and then tweet that. So here…

  • Saving Stone: Six Gods Sit Down To Spend Another Evening Roleplaying Really Badly

    Back at the start of the year, I released in PDF form a free novella-length prequel to my novel Game Night. The 30,000 word novella, Saving Stone, told the tale of an earlier adventure by Game Night’s roleplaying gods and their poor, confused mortal “characters”. What are Saving Stone (and Game Night) about? Well here’s…

  • On Reviews…

    One of the things I find most interesting about reading reviews of stuff I’ve written (I originally wrote that as “reviews of my works” but realised I was pushing the bullshit needle right into the red zone marked “deeply pretentious”) is the degree to which the score, assuming there is one, can often seem to…

  • WordWatch: Fiancé / Fiancée

    One of the interesting aspects of the English language is that it is defined not by experts, but by its users. Ultimately, there is no right way or wrong way to speak English; instead there is simply the way it is spoken. The Oxford English Dictionary is usually regarded as the definitive authority on the…

  • Marie Phillips at London Writers’ Club

    Last night I went to the London Writers Club to hear a talk by Marie Phillips, author of Gods Behaving Badly. (You may remember that I mentioned this event last week). It was really good. She gave a lot of good advice, too much to mention, so I’ll just mention two things that really struck…

  • Foxed By Homonyms

    Does anyone else have trouble with homonyms? (Groups of words that share the same spelling and the same pronunciation but have different meanings). There needs to be a word to describe those conversational car-crashes where you guess one version and the speaker actually intended another, as when someone asks what kind of Windows you have…

  • July’s London Writers’ Club

    Hi all, Got the an email from Jacqueline Burns and Kirsty McLachlan of the London Writers’ Club which I’ve fused together with some text from the website to produce the following: An Evening With Marie Phillips How to write a novel – from idea to publication Our July speaker is Marie Phillips, author of the…

  • In The Beginning…

    It’s often said that the best way to get a story written is just to sit down and start writing it, at the beginning. I heartily concur with this advice, if for no other reason than that having written said beginning you’ll invariably discover that your story actually begins somewhere else entirely. Perhaps time to…

  • London Writers’ Club

    A while ago I posted about the next meeting of the London Writers’ Club. Well that meeting (June 9th) was postponed because of the tube strike, and is instead on tomorrow night (Tuesday 16th June). This is good for me, as I couldn’t make last Tuesday. Anyhow, I’ll be there. If anyone’s into writing and…