NaNoWriMo Update – Writer’s Block? What’s That?

So we’re well into the second week of NaNoWriMo – how’s it going for you? Me? Well, I had an initial splurge of activity, but then other stuff got in the way (as it so often can…), which then led to a period of scratching my head and desperately trying to get back into the […]

NaNoWriMo – This Time It’s Personal…

It’s November which, for many authors, means there’s only one question on their minds: who’s doing NaNoWriMo and have you won yet? For the uninitiated, NaNoWriMo is a not-for-profit organisation whose stated aim is to “help people find their voices, achieve creative goals, and build new worlds—on and off the page”. Since 1999 they have […]

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 […]