I read recently about an author who gave advice to a young student on how to write a story. I can’t remember the link, but this particular author said something along the lines of; ‘forget what they teach you at school about writing a story, and instead ask yourself three questions…’ Who is the main […]
Tag: Diary of a Young Writer
Earlier this year I bought a copy of ‘The Terry Pratchett Diary’. It contains quotes from the Discworld novels and tributes from renowned authors such as Neil Gaiman and A.S. Byatt. It also contains 366 empty boxes (leap year included), for you to write a small paragraph, or a line or two about your day. […]
You may be wondering; Haiku? What the heck is a haiku? A haiku is a very, very, short poem. So short in fact, that it only has three lines in English and a total of 17 syllables. The haiku originates from Japan and was previously called hokku, the name haiku came from the Japanese writer […]
Another Path is only £2.39 on Kindle! You can get a copy of Another Path here. NEW BOOK – ANOTHER PATH (Released 23rd April 2019) When I started writing Anomaly in 2014 I had an idea of where I wanted The Soul Prophecies series to go. I wanted to write about Arhl’s world and I […]
If you’re a bookworm like me then you probably have a lot of books, but you might not know how best to protect them. There are a nunber of ways to improve and protect both old and new books, here are a few that I have learnt from working in a bookshop… Before we get […]
Thank you Sebastien de Castell, your book has been the first book I’ve been able to read fully from front cover to back cover for what feels like a really long time. I devoured Spellslinger, and I have absolutely no regrets or complaints, other than, do you have to be so mean to poor Kellen? […]
At 115 pages into Italo Calvino’s classic ‘If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller’, I’m struggling to continue and I’m thinking about giving up. It’s not that I haven’t enjoyed what I have read so far, I have, and perhaps it isn’t really the book’s fault at all, but my own newfound difficulties with reading. […]
In no particular order, I have a very long list of books which I will hopefully attempt to reduce in 2019. I’ve banned myself from buying new books as I have no room on my bookshelves. I need to read the books that I already have and decide which ones I will be keeping and […]
Happy New Year! So it has been just over two years since I first started working in a second-hand bookshop, and as a follow-up to my blog ‘One Year In A Bookshop’, I thought I would write another blog to update you on my experiences and see if anything has changed. As many of you […]
Richard Bach is an American writer who has written many flight-related works. One of his most notable works is the fable, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, which contains a lot of Bach’s philosophy and deeper thoughts. Bach believes that ‘our apparent physical limits and mortality are merely appearance.’ I read this book in October when it was […]