by Kati Albert | Jul 27, 2020 | blogging, e-book, Write a Book
The first day of January arrives every year without fail. In Scotland, celebrations take place on a grand, public scale: Cities buzz with excitement, towns party into the small hours. Scots are proud of ‘Hogmanay’, thought to be an ancient Gaelic ritual....
by Kati Albert | Jul 24, 2020 | blogging, e-book, Write a Book
Some writers’ beds are still warm when they start working. For others, late nights provide the best conditions – when the noise of the day gives way to silence, and they can peck a keyboard in peace. Each writer is different. The important thing...
by Kati Albert | Jul 22, 2020 | blogging, e-book, Write a Book
“Adverbs are crashers in the syntax house party. More often than not, they should be deleted when they sneak in the back door,” writes Constance Hale, ignoring her own advice before she even reaches the first page of Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly...
by Kati Albert | Jul 20, 2020 | blogging, e-book, Write a Book
If you do not care how people react when they read something you wrote… why write at all? You could have done a million other things other than spend your time wrestling your thoughts onto the page through your keyboard or pen. But you didn’t. So unless you wrote it...
by Tomo Albanese | Jul 17, 2020 | Author Training, blogging, Write a Book
Do you write a paragraph and instantly edit it? Maybe you don’t like the words. Maybe it doesn’t make sense. Maybe it’s fine, but the compulsion to write and edit at the same time reaches a point where it feels like you might never finish a thought, let alone an...
by Kati Albert | Jul 15, 2020 | Author Training, Authors, Write a Book
A meter-wide whiteboard hangs on my living room wall. Two markers – one black, one red – clip inside a magnetic holder that doubles as an eraser. I use the black marker to log daily objectives, the red to swoop a tick when I finish something. Once each black entry...
