If you were a high quality editor, who got sent hundreds of manuscripts a month, or even a week, which ones do you think you’d reject without even reading? None – do I hear you say? Rubbish! Why waste the time of reading event the front page of someone’s work, if they haven’t been bothered [...]
Most full time authors (think J K Rowling, Margaret Atwood, Bernard Cornwell etc) will tell you that they have to treat writing as you might any other occupation: you need to have work time, and home time. Obviously if your writing doesn’t pay the bills (and, given you’re reading this, I presume that means it [...]
I get a lot of people writing to me asking if they can contribute to websites or applying for writing jobs. There is often one significant gap on their CV – writing experience. ‘But how do I start out with no experience?’ people ask. My answer is that you don’t have to do writing work [...]
