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 […]
There’s no such thing as writer’s block. There, I said it. Don’t believe me? Are you currently tortured by a blank page, screaming at your screen: “Of course I’ve got writer’s block, dammit!!!”. Well, read on, you poor, misguided soul… The Myth of Writing There’s one thing that novice writers and so-called experts both […]
To celebrate the imminent release of Neil Lancaster’s debut crime thriller, Going Dark, we thought we’d share our top 7 tips on how to write a great crime thriller. The crime thriller genre is complex and we’re clearly not going to do full justice to it in one single blog post. There are some great […]
