All Posts by John Allen

New Year – New Blog Format

After my rant on how New Year’s resolutions are generally rubbish, I’ve only gone and made one. Irony loves me. Instead of just inflicting random excerpts from my life on you every week, I’ve decided that it makes more sense to break each blog post into 3 sections. Section 1 – News – Covering all […]

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1 Working to write: How do you pay the bills?

It’s amazing how little writers talk about the ‘boring stuff’ that helps pay their bills.  I read lots of blogs on writing and entrepreneurial experts but they rarely talk about the things that helped them get to where they are.  They don’t want to remember that they had to work other jobs before they became […]

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Keeping it Short

Short stories; the challenge of any prose writer in any genre.  Short stories (if written well) are every bit as engaging as a novel or 3+ hour film (Peter Jackson take note).  Being short you’d be forgiven for thinking that makes them easier to write.  They’re not.  A decent short story is incredibly hard to […]

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