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…For Litopia’s forthcoming Author Platform, as debuted in yesterday’s Huddle. Please put your name down below and you’ll be granted (a) full access to the beta-version of the Author Platform; and (b) access to the Colony’s private Beta-Testers forum for your bug reports and suggestions. Thank...

So I decided to create my own space, something beyond an author website---almost like my own online publishing company for my stuff, and maybe in the future for my cool writer friends ;-) I want this page to start publishing all my serialised work: diff screenplays, short stories, and of course...

My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a year. Then, when I sit down to write, I make a list of characters and try to see how they fit. Cynthia Voigt

“You are who you are when nobody’s watching” Stephen Fry

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself. Ursula K. Le Guin

"Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space." Orson Scott Card

“There’s a kind of ear music … a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.” Allan Gurganus

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. Will Durant

“Traditions are just peer pressure from dead people.” Eliot Schrefer

Came across this. Might be interesting: https://www.indieauthorbookfair.com/upcoming-events No idea if it's any good, but I'm thinking of going since it's on my doorstep. Anyone else going? Let me know and we can visit the local pup and get very sloshed beforehand for a quick drink.

Am I the only one who's spotted this? Bill Bryson on self-publishing

Writers often like to talk about how intuitive the writing process is, but in truth, building a book is a remarkably unintuitive task. Or, to put it more accurately, you need a lot more than intuition. You need plot and characters. You need a setting. You need a theme that is relevant and...

Deciding to write a book, it never feels like a great idea. It’s always like knowingly entering a bad marriage. If you had any sense, you wouldn’t do it, but you know you’re going to do it. Percival Everett

If you’re afraid of loneliness, don’t marry. Anton Chekhov

“My words will either attract a strong mind or offend a weak one.” Anne Sexton

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It’s fiction’s business to ask them. Richard Hughes

New blog post by Claire G What Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? Bear With Me! Okay, this is probably a weird analogy but this is how my (bird-brained!) mind works. So, in terms of the title question, I’ve thought long and hard about this and, with my limited scientific knowledge, I’ve...

Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there. Thomas Berger

“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.” Christopher Morley

“If you show someone something you’ve written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’”. David Mitchell