by snowydays | Dec 3, 2015
Writing Tips From Fay Weldon The story so far Should you be in the middle of writing a novel it’s good idea to stop every now and then and devote a hundred words or so to writing down ‘the story so far.’ It focuses the mind on what you’re doing and where you need to...
by snowydays | May 7, 2015
Writing Tips From Fay Weldon The Cosmic Statement Picture yourself as halfway through your first novel. You meet a literary agent at a party, and she (usually a she) asks you, ‘And what is your novel about?’ You have a glass in your hand, it is a social occasion, she...
by snowydays | Jul 3, 2014
Writing Tips From Fay Weldon Novel, or screenplay? Are you writing a novel, or is it more like a screenplay…? I’ve been silent for some time on this blog; but then I’ve been doing what academics do at this time of year – marking. For me it’s creative writing...
by snowydays | Apr 8, 2014
Writing Tips From Fay Weldon On creating character I’d written some 25 novels before I went anywhere near a creative writing class, and then I went as a tutor not a student. So I missed out on the conventional terminology – I still have to look up words like...
by snowydays | Mar 24, 2014
Writing Tips From Fay Weldon Notes on structure All art forms have a structure. Basic rules apply. A novel’s just two or three hundred pages covered with words unless it has a shape, a form. It can be full of characters and events, and people changing their minds (and...
