With the help of post-its, coloured pens and A4 paper, this exercise can give you an overview of your project. In her no-nonsense book How to Nail Your Novel, Roz Morris calls it: The Card Game. I use a mini version of this in my workshops...
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of my award-winning travel memoir, Last Seen in Lhasa, I'm giving away a Tibet-themed prize pack via my Facebook page. Visit the page in order to enter the competition. Below you'll find the Terms & Conditions for this giveaway. CLAIRE SCOBIE/LAST...
Writers often find it hard to finish a piece of work. I always encourage my students and mentee clients that until you’ve finished something, you can’t know if it works. Here five top tips on how to finish your first chapter Have a blurt! This technique...
You do all sorts of interesting things when you’re researching a novel. For The Pagoda Tree, I met a prince and rode on an elephant. Now I’m crowdfunding my book via the publisher Unbound so it can be published in the UK and other territories,...