The Living Edit

I did it. I hit my Third Draft deadline a month ahead of schedule. Is there a chance this early win is due to a somewhat light touch line ...

Thankfully my end of June goal is looking a little more attainable this week. I'm still working through all my structure edits, trying t...

People often refer to the mid-point (or Act two) of their novels as (like the blight of aging), the saggy middle. The middle is a Labyrint...

As a result of trying to develop and then plait my subplots together, my novel has put on considerable weight. Only time will tell if the ...

.....and finding the subplots. All six of the snaky bastards. For the past few weeks I've been focusing on isolating the mini stories,...

Last week I stumbled across Robert J. Ray's 'The weekend Novelist Redrafts the novel,' in an unpacked box and had a quick skim. ...

The start of 2017 has seen me preoccupied by two things; my submission to the Jerwood Mentoring Programme and a bout of good ol' nostalg...