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RESEARCHING FOR HISTORICAL FICTION

August 24, 2020 / BMCPwriter / Leave a comment

Doing the research is one of the chief pleasures of writing historic fiction. There’s nothing like having an excuse to spend hours immersed in the everyday lives of artisans in Tudor England, artists’ models in Renaissance Florence, minor officials in the court of Louis XIV or whatever place and period you have chosen as your … Continue reading RESEARCHING FOR HISTORICAL FICTION

Concise [ kuhn-sahys ]: Expressing or covering much in few words

June 11, 2020August 24, 2020 / BMCPwriter / 1 Comment

The advice most often offered to an aspiring writer is to be concise, to use as few words as possible to convey meaning. To that end, I think we need a campaign to adopt a bunch of words from other languages. After all, English has grown largely by this process, we should simply focus our … Continue reading Concise [ kuhn-sahys ]: Expressing or covering much in few words

Writing Tools

May 27, 2017May 27, 2017 / BMCPwriter / Leave a comment

The great thing about writing is that all you need is a pen and paper. Except my writing is largely illegible, even to me. So I use my laptop. And then, of course, there is the matter of publishing, which adds more complexity. So all in all, I used quite a few bits and pieces … Continue reading Writing Tools

What did I learn?

May 25, 2017May 27, 2017 / BMCPwriter / Leave a comment

I learned several things in the process of writing 'Bunco'. I'll try to generate a series of posts focussing on the main lessons. This one will be about the relative weight of some of the various elements mentioned in this graphic by Christopher LaPorte on his extraordinarily beautiful website. I'll touch on grammar in another … Continue reading What did I learn?

First blog post

May 25, 2017May 27, 2017 / BMCPwriter / Leave a comment

My first blog post. The screen really does look very empty and white! About six or seven months ago, I started to write a novel. I actually forget what its working title was, but it soon became 'Bunco'. This wasn't close to being the first time I had decided to attempt writing a novel. I … Continue reading First blog post

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Welcome, and thanks for visiting. I am an aspiring writer, sharing some of my experience of getting to grips with creative writing. Please take a look around, there are things to read and things to comment upon.
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