Much like Niki (who spoke about her own process in this post about writing her first novel, iWitness), I’ve always been an avid reader. When I was a kid, my mum would take my siblings and I to our local library at least once a week. There, we’d say hello to the giant carpet python,…
I have always read. A lot. I love stories. As soon as I learned to read, and that words put together were like magical doorways into different worlds, I was off. Books affected me. Stories impacted me. Fictional characters took firm place in my heart and memory. I often preferred them to real life people,…
So you’ve got a brilliant idea and you want to write a novel… you can even picture the cover… you see yourself signing copies, walking the red carpet at the film adaptation, living off your big fat royalty cheques… But how do you get from where you are now to there? Okay, well, I can’t…