4 hours. It might have been less if I knew what I was doing and hadn’t broken my arm skiing last week but that’s the way life goes sometimes. My experience has given me an insight into the power and thrall of social media and so I decided to share the steps I and […]
Continue readingIt sounds like several words mangled together but in actual fact Nanowrimo stands for ‘National Novel Writing Month’. Every November this incredibly nutty organisation runs a month long challenge. The challenge itself is to write 50,000 words of a book within 1 month. Despite the slight inaccuracy of the title (there are writers participating […]
Continue readingBeing in the middle of writing a book at this moment, I find like most writers the material beginning to sour. Characters start to become uninteresting, scenes make no sense and I end up going off on tangents all over the place. On the worst days, I stop writing completely and allow my inner demon […]
Continue readingIt’s time for a change. As such I Write, You Read will be undergoing a full design upgrade over the coming weeks. It will remain live throughout this process whilst all the exciting functions, features and content are incorporated into the brand spanking new design. You can still read all the existing content and previous […]
Continue readingSo I was recently commissioned to write a short story for a student’s personal website. When I first spoke with Abdul, he had this idea for a story involving a Muslim orphan from Afghanistan whose dream it was to meet the Queen of England. He wanted to dedicate the story to his mother as […]
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