NaNoWriMo – A Confession

OK, we’re calling it. Our NaNoWriMo 2018 dream is officially dead. We started out with such high hopes: back on that heady, dreamy morning of 1 November. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, the fates were perfectly aligned. We were going to do it. We would achieve something great. Yes, along with thousands […]

Introducing… The Burning Chair Podcast!

As you know, here at Burning Chair we love the written word as much as we love, well… pretty much anything at all. However, sometimes there’s just no substitute for seeing and hearing someone. And we know that some of you (poor misguided souls that you are…) have been itching to find out what we […]

It’s NaNoWriMo – how’s the first week been for you?

Ah, November. The burnt orange autumnal leaves giving way to frosty mornings* and the early onset of Christmas decorations. But, for writers, November represents something far far more important: National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). For the uninitiated, NaNoWriMo is a not-for-profit organisation whose aim is to promote writing and support writers in getting their novels […]