Photo credit: Maurizio Mori / Foter / CC BY-NC Many universities offer courses, or at the very least units on writing, and specifically creative writing, and plenty of writers choose to study these. I myself am finishing up a Bachelors in Professional Writing and Publishing at the moment (bring on the end of November!). However, while there are obviously a lot of benefits...

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Recently, I’ve been listening to a lot more Two Steps From Hell. They have a seriously epic assortment of music, suiting many different moods. Their music has the feel of a good movie soundtrack, emotive and evocative. I enjoy listening to their pieces when I’m studying or writing. One of my recent discoveries in their archives of music is gorgeous piece called My...

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I have a pretty good system in place for backing up my novels if I do say so myself. Each one is stored in multiple locations on my computer, in case of file corruption. Many few reside in Google Drive, some live in my emails, and a few live on a USB drive. The files themselves are labelled with a title, draft number,...

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Photo credit: thorinside / Foter / CC BY-NC So, you’re happily writing away at your book. And then, all of a sudden, your character gets shot. Which is fine. There’s hours of fun research in that. You sit at your computer, start looking things up, and before you know it, you’ve got dozens of tabs open on the treatment of gunshot wounds, different...

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Ever since I first discovered Lindsey Stirling and Taylor Davis on YouTube, I’ve been in love with violin music. It’s such a versatile instrument, able to play both classical and contemporary music beautifully. Many of my favourite pieces of music to write to are played on the violin. So it’s only natural that today’s writing music is another amazing violin piece, A Flat....

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It’s that time again, time to discover more about the characters in my books in the August edition of the Beautiful People link-up. This is an amazing link-up aimed at helping writers get to know their characters better, and share them with other people. It’s run by the amazing people, Cait@Paper Fury and Sky@Further Up andFurther In, and if you haven’t joined in...

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There are many elements I love when reading books. I love characters, friendships, plot twists, settings. These things can quickly become my favourite aspects of a book. The romances? Not so much. I find it a bit more difficult to find a romance that I can get really invested in and enjoy. However, I recently discovered the books of Australian author David Metzenthen,...

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I love discovering musicians whose music is all suitable for writing to, no matter what piece you’re listening to. Recently, I’ve been listening to a lot of music by Two Steps From Hell, which is just like this. They have some of the best songs I’ve ever found for writing to. It has the emotions and moods of a movie soundtrack, very few...

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Photo credit: Hammonton Photography / Foter / CC BY-NC Writing is an amazing, magical thing. When you write, you create new worlds, become friends with unique characters, and have the ability to share your amazing stories with others. But at the same time, writing can also be one of the most frustrating pastimes. I’m not even talking about rebellious characters, unexpected and devastating...

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