It's time for me to think about the year ahead and set my stall.
Category: Assorted Ramblings
Clearing out the Cobwebs
It's been a while. Things have been a bit all over lately. Work was really tough for me, robbing me of my drive and passion for writing. I just wasn't feeling it. The creative juices had dried up and my desire to work on my writing was gone. This was particularly unpleasant scenario approaching the …
The Season of Good Will
I cannot believe it is almost Christmas already. So much has happened this year. I've had the opportunity to become a freelance proofreader working with my wonderful editor and designer - Jen of Fuzzy Flamingo. So far I have worked with her on three books. Two of those have been released so far, both achieving …
Here to Help!
So you've read the book and thought it actually wasn't too bad. You'd even consider reading others from the author. But in the meantime, what can you do to support self-published authors? There are a few things that will really help. Self-promotion can be tough for some authors, and time-consuming for many. Certainly for me, …
Lights, cameras, action!
I thought for this post I'd mix things up a little bit and rather than talking books, I'd talk films. Well, hypothetical films anyway. A couple of recent conversations got me thinking. It started out discussing how I visulise my characters. From there, it moved on to whether I saw certain actors playing specific characters …
On Writing
Some of you may recognise the title of this post. That'll be because I pilfered it straight from the cover of a book by one of my favourite authors. That would be On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King. This will become a bit more relevant further on into this piece. Now …
Confession Time
I have been absolutely terrible at keeping this blog up to date lately, especially compared to my book review blog (Books and Beyond Reviews). Not too long ago now, on my Facebook page linked with this site I posted about a return to writing on my first fictional piece, Our Boy Jack. Now comes the …
From the Page to the Silver Screen
More often than not the biggest, most popular, or downright left of field books attract the covetous eyes of the money men in Tinsel Town. And can we really blame them? The script is practically written already! All they need to do is make sure it fits into a 90-to-120 minute format to keep viewers’ …
A Warm Welcome!
The journey to becoming an author starts here!
Steven Smith 