Blog off
Guys, am on writing hiatus. Back when I’m done. You know…done, done. Continue reading Blog off
7x7x7x7…Let’s Play!
Sunday night, laughing at the telly, kids lolling all over me, fiancee´on the other sofa sipping at a glass of wine, all is well with the world. Tweet Tweet! Why did I have to look? What is it about Twitter that makes those surreptitious glances oh so tempting. What do you mean I’ve got a challenge? …
A Cure For Writer’s Twitch…
There are times when I wish there was such a thing as a publishing confessor. Someone and somewhere I could visit, to rest my weary eyes as I cast them downwards in shame and ask for literary absolution. It would save me the trouble of having to wrestle with my conscience the whole time. A … Continue reading A Cure For Writer’s Twitch…
I think you know your book’s cooked when it stops screaming.
As Gordon Ramsay so often says when conjuring another fine dish for us home chefs to marvel at… ‘DONE!’ Trouble is, I’m not sure writers can ever really say we’re ‘done’. I thought I was done a while back but then I sent my debut novel out to a few agents and they wrote back very … Continue reading I think you know your book’s cooked when it stops screaming.
To blog or not to blog…
So why haven’t I posted for a while? Because I’ve been writing. And learning. Avidly. Steeply. And one of the things I’ve learned is that it’s too easy to get distracted from writing by…erm, writing (or blogging or Tweeting or working) and life and the internet and everything else that isn’t writing what you should … Continue reading To blog or not to blog…
Setting oneself up for a fall…
Determined to write a publishable novel, my game plan was set:- 1. Write great thriller, heart and soul job, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite 2. Set up blog giving occasional insight into the roller coaster ride that is writing and the publishing process, which is almost certain to end in disaster/no agent/no publisher based on statistics alone … Continue reading Setting oneself up for a fall…
Antagonist, protagonist, prologue or other?
When I worked as a journalist for the BBC and before then for newspapers, it was well understood that stories had to be structured in a certain way. Headline, tight intro, explanatory paragraph, another if you really have to, then who says what (actually the five w’s…who, what, why, when, where) in the least words … Continue reading Antagonist, protagonist, prologue or other?
The Sawol: Discovery
‘Humanity has proved itself capable of creation almost beyond imagination…but its greatest single talent is that of self destruction. Let this failure be encouraged.’ As science and complacency usurp man’s withering faith in God, our claim to be true inheritors of the Earth is threatened. The Sawol: Discovery follows a murderous campaign to prevent the emergence … Continue reading The Sawol: Discovery
It’s happening…
After years of promising myself I’d write a book, my debut novel The Sawol: Discovery is starting to take shape. First draft half written…keep following for progress… Continue reading It’s happening…
James Ormonde 