by snowydays | Mar 12, 2014
Writing Tips From Fay Weldon An old-fashioned feel? If you’re an older writer – or sometimes when English isn’t your first language – everything you write can seem to you to be faultless, flawless, and the grammar perfect. But others complain it seems to come from...
by snowydays | Dec 29, 2013
Writing Tips From Fay Weldon But is it going to ‘work’? I worry about students writing novels who say: ‘It came to me in a dream.’ Inspiration’s all very well but it does need to be tempered by reason. Be careful you’re not writing a novel which makes sense to no-one...
by snowydays | Nov 4, 2013
Writing Tips From Fay Weldon What age are your characters? What age are you going to make your characters? It matters to publishers, it matters to marketing and PR people. You may chose to ignore this horrible fact and pursue your literary ambitions unmoved by the...
by snowydays | Oct 3, 2013
Writing Tips From Fay Weldon Notes on dialogue I try to have a snatch of dialogue on the first page of a novel. It suggests to the reader that this is a book in which something is going to happen; it isn’t just going to blether on and on. The attempt, I find, helps...
by snowydays | Aug 19, 2013
Writing Tips From Fay Weldon What is your new novel about? By which I don’t mean what is its genre, or what is the plot, but what is it actually about. Why do you want to write it; what do you want to say? Once that is decided, the novel becomes much easier to write....
