You might be looking at that deceptively simple title thinking, but everyone can write a sentence. Well, yes, illiteracy aside, everyone probably can. The point is to write a sentence that grips people and makes them want to read on. To write sentences that create sympathy between your audience and your characters. Used correctly…
Category: Tales of York
Throwback Thursday: Tales of York, Volume one – Plot and Character
(First Published on my old blog, 28th October 2013) By now I wouldn’t blame you if you were thinking, ‘just how long can she go on about York FoW13? It was a month ago!’ And you’d be right in as far as no amount of blog posts can recapture the experience of going yourself. That…
Throwback Thursday: Tales of York, Volume one : The Sci-Fi Master Class
(First published on my old blog, 18th October 2013) High time I continued with my York FoW13 chronicles. Only a fairly short one tonight, as this was one seminar where I think you had to be there. Gary Gibson, well known science fiction author of Angel Stations and Stealing Light (amongst others), took the Sci-Fi…
Throwback Thursday:Tales of York, Volume One – Lovers, Buddies and the Tragedy Paper.
(First published on my old blog, 7th October 2013) The first seminar I attended at York FoW13, was ‘Lovers and Buddies; 7 steps to friendship and romance’, by Jeremy Sheldon. I’d never been to a writing seminar of any kind before. In fact any seminars I usually attend have horrifying medical slide shows attached, so…
Tales of York, Volume one: A Distinct lack of Brimstone
(First published on my old blog, 4th October 2013) From the title, I’m sure you can guess I’m continuing my York memoirs 😉 In this instance I want to talk about agents. If you read my earlier York post, you’ll know that I was very nervous about going due to my ineptitude at talking about…
Throwback Thursday: Harnessing Demons
(First published on my blog, 3rd October 2013) I’m bouncing this post off of a conversation I had at York. A man I met on the first night was telling me about his crime novel. Naturally I won’t divulge details – for one thing that would be unspeakably rude. For another who wants to be…
Throwback Thursday: Tales of York: Volume One – Intimate Strangers
(First published on my old blog 2nd October 2013) I’d hate to give anyone the wrong impression, so I’ll state now that while the title was a pleasing oxymoron for me and apt for this topic, I won’t be covering any erotica today – sorry about that 😉 September 2013 saw the University of York…