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NaNoWriMo 2017

Posted by Owen on July 22nd, 2018 03:18 PM | Comments Off

The Beginning - volume 7 in the series Behind The Smile - my NaNoWriMo 2017 entry NaNoWriMo 2017 I just finished NaNoWriMo 2017, my fifth consecutive NaNoWriMo and I still enjoy it enormously. I overheard a few people talking about it a ...

Literary Agents Past and Present

Posted by Owen on January 14th, 2018 03:32 PM | Comments Off

Literary Agents Past and Present Literary Agents Past and Present It was only five years ago that I sought to have my first novel published, but a lot has happened, and charged, since then, making it feel much longer ago. It ...

Editing Tips For Indie Writers

Posted by Owen on April 26th, 2017 06:16 PM | Comments Off

Editing Tips For Indie Writers Editing Tips For Indie Writers Here are my editing tips for Indie writers, because editing is a most important and time-consuming task for writers, especially those who do everything themselves, which is the vast majority of Indie ...

Conventions In Writing

Posted by Owen on September 9th, 2016 01:13 PM | Comments Off

Conventions in Writing Conventions In Writing Sometimes, it seems that our lives are full of conventions. There are all sorts of them: social conventions; Star Trek Conventions; Conventions of Witches (and even witches' conventions, I dare say); Writers' Conventions; and writing ...

Our New Insiders’ Newsletter

Posted by Owen on July 16th, 2016 04:48 PM | Comments Off

Our New Insiders' Newsletter Our New Insiders' Newsletter I decided to launch a new newsletter because I felt that it would be a repository of answers to questions about writing, publishing and my own books that repeatedly crop up and I ...

Conventions

Posted by Owen on April 3rd, 2016 08:22 AM | Comments Off

Conventions Conventions Sometimes, it seems that our lives are full of conventions. There are all sorts of them: social conventions; Star Trek Conventions; Conventions of Witches (and even witches' conventions, I dare say); Writers' Conventions; and writing conventions, which is what ...

Factual Versus Fictional Writing

Posted by Owen on February 11th, 2016 04:11 PM | Comments Off

Factual Versus Fictional Writing Factual Versus Fictional Writing I have been thinking about the differences, the pro's and con's of factual versus fictional writing all day, after someone told me that they struggle to read works of fiction, because their reading ...

The Colour of Leaves

Posted by Owen on December 6th, 2015 06:13 AM | Comments Off

The Colour of Leaves The Colour of Leaves There are many styles of writing and just as many types of readers who have stylistic preferences. I can be argued that the most successful writers match the most common preferences and one ...

Inspiration

Posted by Owen on November 8th, 2015 05:10 AM | Comments Off

Inspiration - Fate Twister Inspiration We are six days into NaNoWriMo 2015, and my novel is coming on quite well. I have written about nineteen thousand words in five chapters. However, 'A Night in Annwn' far from written. I suppose I ...

The Lek Series

Posted by Owen on October 10th, 2015 12:08 AM | Comments Off

The Lek Series - Behind The Smile The Lek Series I call it the Lek series, although it is always billed as the 'Behind The Smile' series, which is its official title. It is just that the name Lek trips off ...

Writing My Books

Posted by Owen on September 18th, 2015 06:48 AM | Comments Off

Writing My Books Writing My Books Regular readers will know what I'm like by now - if I'm not writing my books or talking to you like this, I'm reorganizing my files or trying to improve them, but writing my books ...

Personal Style

Posted by Owen on July 7th, 2015 09:10 AM | Comments Off

The Disallowed Personal Style We all have our own personal style, our own way of doing things, don't we? And we all know what we do and do not like - that's part of it. I personally am not keen on ...

Storm Not Monsoon

Posted by Owen on June 2nd, 2015 07:58 AM | Comments Off

Storm Not Monsoon Storm Not Monsoon Yesterday, late afternoon, black clouds could be seen on the horizon, then a wind appeared from nowhere and suddenly the clouds were overhead emptying their contents all over us. When I say suddenly, I mean, ...

Writing for Pleasure and Profit

Posted by Owen on May 18th, 2015 02:58 PM | Comments Off

Writing for Pleasure and Profit Writing for Pleasure and Profit If I don't mention the temperature for a while, it's because it is still in the forty-five to forty-seven range. I have slept nearly all day today because of it, and ...

Hung-over and Still Bored

Posted by Owen on April 2nd, 2015 03:55 AM | Comments Off

Hung-over and Still Bored Hung-over and Still Bored Since it was our seventh wedding anniversary on Monday, I treated myself to a 'pub crawl' around the village. I put it in inverted commas because there are no pubs where we live ...

A Boring Sunday

Posted by Owen on March 31st, 2015 03:54 PM | Comments Off

A Boring Sunday A Boring Sunday I really can't understand Kobo's attitude. I know they won't write to me today because it's Sunday, but they blocked selling Behind The Smile II for suspected 'illegal activity' yet haven't answered any of my ...

Pantsing vs Planning a Book

Posted by Owen on February 20th, 2015 05:57 AM | Comments Off

Owen JonesPantsing vs Planning a BookWriters, of books and probably other forms of writing, are divided into two kinds: those who write their book as they go, that is, by the seat of their pants - and hence 'pantsing' ...

Critical Book Reviews

Posted by Owen on November 21st, 2013 03:13 PM | Comments Off

Critical Book Reviews Critical Book Reviews I write books and buy books and, needless to say, I read books too. However, at the age of 60 , I can honestly say that I have never read any critical book reviews that ...