At a crucial stage of writing my debut novel, A Superior Spectre, I travelled to the Scottish isles of Islay and Jura. I had been to Scotland three times already, but on this occasion I wanted to experience the …
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Fifty Shades of Self
One of the first questions I ask myself when I begin a new creative non-fiction work, short- or long-form, is existential in nature (and stolen from Shakespeare). To be or not to be? Am I going to appear in my …
At Find My Pathway I shared 8 of my best writing tips. Hope some will resonate with you.…
Second Book Syndrome: Guest Post by Bram Presser
Having come from the world of music (well, punk rock, which to some might not count), Iām all too familiar with the curse of the sophomore album. A band bursts onto the scene with a killer debut only to come …
For the first time ever I was interviewed about my micro-lit writing. And about my reading too, which is always great to talk about. Of course, it’s a micro-interview 
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Writing the Silences: Guest Post by Alice Nelson
Many years ago, in one of those serendipitous but fateful-feeling writing discoveries, I came across an essay by the American poet Louise Gluck. In her poetry, Gluck said, she was attracted to gaps and ellipsis, to disruption and hesitation, to …