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Writer. Do your research.

Dear reading fiction-writer. Yes, you. Do you research? If you write historical fiction, you probably do. You need to know the proper time-frame and era that your characters live in. You need to know about food, transport, weapons, social classes and so forth. When you write contemporary fiction, you’ll probably hound the news and modern cultural information. When you write… (more…)


I write like…

Dear reader, There is an fun website out there which tries to compare a person’s writing to that of famous writers. I gave it a shot with an excerpt from the latest part of Hilda 10 that I had written, and this came out of its analysis: I write like Cory Doctorow I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze… (more…)


First drafts

It’s true. And first drafts usually aren’t perfect. Not even mine. Now wait a moment, scribbler, what do you mean Not even mine? Yes, I see the frowns arise and hear the snickers erupt. Still I have found that there is a huge different in writing draft versions of stories from one writer to the other. I don’t know where that… (more…)


Write what you know

Write what you know. That is an advice often given to writers, especially the ones who start their first journey into the realms of words, paragraphs and pages, lots of pages. It is sound advice, because when you write about what you know, you can be fairly certain that you don’t make a silly one of yourself (and I deliberately… (more…)


One book, two languages

Dear reader, I am venturing into an experiment. Through a series of events I had an idea for a new story. (Reminder to events: kindly  stop eventing for a while, my box with story-ideas is still overflowing. Thank you.) One of the events is co-writing a story with a friend. As she is Dutch and much better at Dutch than… (more…)


The rewrite

Dear reader and fellow writer, I think every writer who doubts herself or himself enough has this feeling occasionally: the need to rewrite. It happens when you look back at what you wrote,  a few years ago, perhaps your first book, or the second one, and you see that is not up to the standard you have achieved. That paragraph… (more…)


Something original

Dear reader, My fellow APG author Jonathan Gould has written a nice article on creativity. You might feel inclined to have a look at it.


Ed’s Casual Friday: My TGI(‘m)I(ndie) moment of the day.

Posted on October 19, 2012 by M. Edward McNally on Indiesunlimited.com (and reposted with permission). Warning: I’m going to talk a little bit about my own writing in this post, which I usually try to avoid on Casual Friday in favor of topics that are of more general interest to people who are not, well, me. But I’ve got a point, I promise. I am presently in… (more…)


Writers Code of Honor

I, as a professional writer who values my integrity, do solemnly swear that I shall: Never write my own reviews, nor will I use sock puppets or other methods to falsely present my books as being of superior quality or to promote them over that of others. Never ask others to like/tag/review my book without reading it simply to ‘support… (more…)


Workload ahead.

Dear reader, sometimes it is hard to decide what to do next. Do you share that view? For me at this point in time the decision runs along the following: start with the next Hilda the Wicked Witch story (number 11); continue and finish “Bristol Dream”; continue and finish “Daniel and Rayko”, the sequel to “Bactine”; continue and finish a… (more…)


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