Adding anxiety to depression is a bit like adding cocaine to alcohol. It presses fast-forward on the whole experience. You don’t have a second. You don’t have a single waking second outside of the fear. You crave a moment, a single second of not being terrified, but the moment never […]
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HOW TO GET PUBLISHED
1. Write a really good book. 2. By good, I mean the book you actually want to write, written the way you want to write it. If that means writing War and Peace with talking squirrels, then do it. Just write the thing you are going to believe in the […]
WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU MAKES YOU WEAKER
It’s hard to explain depression to people who haven’t suffered from it. It is like explaining life on Earth to an alien. The reference points just aren’t there. You just have to resort to metaphors. You are at the bottom of the ocean. You are on fire. The main thing […]
30 Things to Tell A Book Snob (Revisited)
A while ago, on the Booktrust website, I wrote a blog about book snobs. It was quite popular and – not being a snob – I like popularity, but I also got into a lot of arguments online with book snobs who said that I was on the wrong side, […]
GOD’S WRITING TIPS
People think that if you are a writer giving writing tips then you are annoying and probably getting too big for your writer boots. I know this because of all the letters I get saying ‘you are annoying and too big for your writer boots’. People hate writing tips so […]
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