I’ve been working with an adventurer for the past few months. The book, when it comes out, will be an account of his many expeditions every one of which has provoked observations about the nature of life-changing moments and how to handle them. The author is...
If you’re considering writing a book, you might be asking yourself how do I even start? If you look around for advice, there are about as many ways as there are authors. For fiction, broadly, the advice can be parcelled into three or four approaches. Some writers...
I don’t know about you, but when I pick a non-fiction title in a bookshop, I flick straight to the back in search of the index. It’s an old habit formed of an awareness that a well-constructed index is perhaps the most reliable and efficient means to understand...
VOICING CONCERNS This post goes back to a day some time ago when I got on a train and went to a ‘meeting’. I know. I’ll give you a minute. It’s been a while. In case you still need help, a ‘meeting’ is a gathering of individuals often in a ‘meeting room’ to talk about...
You’ll have discussed between you the content, the readership and target dates; you have your contract and are now excited about getting cracking on your book. It’s taken a while to get to this stage after all. But how does it actually work in practice? How does...
Only four days in and November really hasn’t been the best, has it? Without repeating every line of the list of rubbish things that have happened and those that are, as I write, ‘rubbish-in-progress’, the first week of November 2020 is fast becoming the very model of...
