Tag: Two Boys from Brighton

  • The growth of a novel

    The growth of a novel

    If you missed Part 6, please click here: https://somersetwriters.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/1881/   Part 7 Blogging Why bother with a blog? Lois has written on this blog about it is more fun to have a conversation than talking to yourself. If you transpose this to writers, you might say that writing purely for your own satisfaction is a…

  • The growth of a novel

    The growth of a novel

    If you missed Part 5, please click here: https://wordpress.com/post/somersetwriters.wordpress.com/1860   Part 6    How the cover was designed. ‘You can’t tell a book by its cover,’ can you? I don’t know who first said this but it is patently untrue. Just walk in Waterspoons, thousands of books, paperback and hard back. Every hardback has a…

  • The growth of a novel

    The growth of a novel

    If you missed Part 3, please click here: The Growth of a Novel   Part 4 Self publishing It’s all very well writing either for yourself or writing for a small group and ending up dissecting your writing, editing and changing it but how do you know if it is any good – and what is…

  • The Growth of a Novel

    The Growth of a Novel

    If you have missed Part 2, please click here: The growth of a novel Part 3 The writing group. Here I was, retired, putting a lot of effort into recovering from a stroke, writing a lot and getting creatively bored; what to do? I had heard of the University of the Third Age ( U3A ).…

  • Two boys from Brighton

    Two boys from Brighton

    Like many writers, I have been trying to allow my hidden novel to get written and to see the light of day for several years. The plot and characters have been hidden in my head with the characters begging to be allowed out to express themselves through the written word. This has been a slow…