How sharing the story early changes the story itself I realise what I have been doing on social media for the past couple of months appears odd to a lot of people. Sharing my story before it's finalised is probably considered a bit risky. Many writers are told not to share their work too early—but what actually happens when you do? Sure, there is an element of risk but I have discovered there is something incredible in it that I hadn't predicted. People are responding. I kn

If you have any thoughts of your own around this, please leave a comment. This is a topic a very important person close to me, really wanted me to post about. She is one of those people who is always right and it seems like an important area to talk about. What is the right path when you start writing so young? Do you/should you change it and adapt it to grow with your growing voice? Do you leave it alone? Writers have a voice at every stage of the process. Surely, these deve

Stories aren't meant to stay hidden. This is me bringing it into the light. Let me begin with a question. Have you ever picked up a book and wondered - how did this book get from someone else's brain into my hand? I have, many times, and I will say, I never realised how much there was to it. I, perhaps naively, thought I'd write something great; send it to a publisher and they would do the rest. Well, that is not the case, not at all! I want to laugh at that poor sweet in

I know, starting where I mean to build from. As my first post on the subject I'm going to keep it reasonably simple, because, quite frankly - it is actually very hard to get published. I should probably add the caveat - successfully. I don't know about you, but with the time and the love I put into my writing, I would like it to reach as wide an audience as possible. That takes a lot of varying factors. I'm going to make something of a list but I know I will be missing many o