NaNoWriMo 2017
Posted by Owen on July 22nd, 2018 03:18 PM | Comments Off on NaNoWriMo 2017
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 on Literary Agents Past and Present
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 on Editing Tips For Indie Writers
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 on Conventions In Writing
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 on Our New Insiders’ Newsletter
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 on Conventions
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 on Factual Versus Fictional Writing
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 on The Colour of Leaves
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 on Inspiration
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 on The Lek Series
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 on Writing My Books
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 on Personal Style
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 on Storm Not Monsoon
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 on Writing for Pleasure and Profit
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 on Hung-over and Still Bored
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 on A Boring Sunday
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 on Pantsing vs Planning a Book
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 on Critical Book Reviews
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 ...
