Part 22 of an intermittent series where I read or re-read the writing books on my shelf to see if they’re worth keeping. See previous part here I’ve moved on to Nuts & Bolts of Scriptwriting. First up was the venerable Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri. I’m not sure about this book. ItContinue reading “Writing About Writing About Writing Review 22”
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Interview with Alistair from Books on the Hill
Books on the Hill are running a Kickstarter to launch a series of books for Dyslexic adults. I spoke to Alistair who runs the shop and asked him all about it. Tell us a bit about Books on the Hill and the Kickstarter We are an independent bookshop that is dyslexic friendly, based on aContinue reading “Interview with Alistair from Books on the Hill”
Writing about writing about writing: The index
I’ve been doing this review process for almost a year. The first post was back in June 2020. In that time I’ve reviewed just less than 100 books and mentioned a further 30 on the shelves. A friendly reader asked me to include an index so here we go: Book Rating Type WAWAW Elements ofContinue reading “Writing about writing about writing: The index”
Writing About Writing About Writing Review 21
Part 21 of an intermittent series where I read or re-read the writing books on my shelf to see if they’re worth keeping. See previous part here As per the last of these I’ve been reading “How to Write comics” books. First up was the sequel to Drawing Words & Writing Pictures which was inContinue reading “Writing About Writing About Writing Review 21”
Guest Post by Dan Coxon – The Sickness and the Cure: Mental Health in Horror
Horror has always been a genre that rests heavily on its tropes, from the suspicious stranger to the abandoned cabin in the woods. Unfortunately, it has also at times relied on a toxic trope that can damage more than it entertains: that of the mentally ill psychopath. I’m currently crowdfunding the anthology Out of theContinue reading “Guest Post by Dan Coxon – The Sickness and the Cure: Mental Health in Horror”
The Writing Life
So this week I’ve been planning for starting a new novel, revising The Museum for Forgetting and editing someone else’s novel. I have progressed on the WAWAW but think a blog on that will be better next week once I’ve finished the book I’m reading (maybe even 2 books) I’ve been pondering my comms andContinue reading “The Writing Life”
NaNoWriMo
My Writing About Writing About Writing has slowed down the last few weeks because of two things. Firstly the Bristol Festival of Literature – which went really well, I’ll post a link to the videos when they’re available. Also prep for NaNoWriMo – I’ve failed at doing this a couple of times in the pastContinue reading “NaNoWriMo”
A tiding of tidings
As I thought would happen – I’ve not yet finished “The Making of a Story” as the next book in the Writing about Writing about Writing Review (it is 600+ pages long) so instead for this week’s blog – a brief bit of news. I’ve been editing a novel for Grimbold (another author’s – aContinue reading “A tiding of tidings”
Writing about writing about writing Review 5
Part 5 of an intermittent series where I read or re-read the writing books on my shelf to see if they’re worth keeping. See previous part here Metaphors We Live By by Lakoff & Johnson. Keeping to the dull cover theme that runs through this series the first up was this book that blew myContinue reading “Writing about writing about writing Review 5”
Writing about writing about writing Review 4
4th in an intermittent series of reviewing my writing books, with an aim of reducing how many I have. The previous post is here The subtitle for this one should be: 3 books about sentences and one about flourishes. I’m going to confess that I’ve never been able to finish this book, and if itContinue reading “Writing about writing about writing Review 4”
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