🇺🇸-born, 🇬🇧-based, novelist.📖 Writing, travel, culture and more. Always holding "auditions" – so be careful or you may end up a character in “1797”…and perhaps an evil one.🎭 (And why do I suspect some of you might like that latter in particular?)😂
As I go at it again, my now late uncle’s words come back to me regularly: “Fiction comes from fact, and lots of fact makes great fiction when you re-write it as fiction.” I love it. Come sometime in 2019, I hope you will love this, too.
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The term “passive-aggressive” may well have been coined by someone observing a jealous author reviewing another’s work.
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Every page is important, but for a writer (in my humble opinion) “Page 1” is probably the scariest one.
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The Sun Also Rises is said to be probably his best novel. Interestingly, too, it is his first. (Not something most writers wish for themselves.)
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Instagram as well as other social media platforms are just not nearly as flexible or personal as a blog.
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When I see authors on social media moaning over how their family doesn’t want read their books, I find I can only smile.
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I don’t think I would have written any of my books as I had if we had not built that house. Spending so much time there after, something about the area drew me into wanting to write about it.
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I find one of the “sneaky” joys in fiction writing is basing characters, or important aspects of them, on living (or once living) people and only you know who he or she “really” is.
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I do not agree with the increasingly common assertion that adult readers “need to see themselves” in a character in order to be interested in a book. In fact, I believe rather the opposite.
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As was the case for most of those who came before us (such as those “1787” fictional people above), most of us wish merely to live our lives in peace amongst our families and friends.
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