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I randomly saw a post of Twitter the other week, a series of grey, yellow and green blocks stacked on one another. What is that? I asked the tweeted and they simply responded: Wordle. What is Wordle? A quick Google search took me straight there and I that was it. I was hooked. Ever since then, I can’t seem to escape it. It’s everywhere, everyone is talking about, my newsfeed is 50% Wordle articles and …
It came as a happy surprise when this year’s Queer Indie nominations were announced a few weeks ago. I wasn’t expecting it at all. Everyone says, it’s enough to just be nominated and as wonderful as that is, of course I want to win. Everyone yearns to be validated and recognised for their hard work.
We writers, write. It’s what we do. Sometimes, we have to sit at our computers and notepads and push ourselves to write something, other times, we are guided by our inspiration. Inspiration can strike at any time, in any form, so it’s always handy to have something nearby to write on. For me, it’s either my phone’s notepad or my computer. I used to write in a physical notepad, but I find my brain works …
I have been reading a book recently that has clearly never been anywhere near an editor, or a beta reader or even Grammarly. The formatting is wrong – it’s double spaced after every paragraph. There are multiple spelling, grammar and punctuation mistakes – even some of the tenses used are wrong. There are four main characters, three of them have names starting with the letter M. This is fiction, the author could have called them …
I was recently asked to participate in The Writing Community Chat Show’s Top 10 Writing Tips. I focused on Research. I’m a science fiction writer – in fact, let’s not limit myself, I’m a writer with a penchant for science fiction. (Penchant? Now you know I’m a writer! lol) For me, research is an important and integral part of my writing process. I write real-world sci-fi and try to make everything as realistic and understandable …