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New year, new resolutions

Write for your heart, not the market

Turn it over to your subconscious

The rebel

Exercising your writing muscles

Gifts

The left-overs

The feast

The gift

Keeping to the ritual

Toughening up

Under the weather

Drinking coffee is working on my writing, honest

Haunting characters

Picking a story apart

My very own world

The curse of writer's block

Real life informs fictional life

The author submission package

Rigid spontaneity

The first page is your showcase

Finding your writer's voice

What motivates them?

To see through your eyes

Show, don't tell

What's in a name?

Revealing the real me

Create, then edit

Say it in one sentence

Soggy middles

To plan, or not

A room of one's own

Not so future science fiction

Once more with feeling

Read and learn

The importance of a fresh pair of eyes

Falling In love with FEM-SF again

The set-up for book two

Not so minor minor characters

Whodunit or whydunnit?

Once more with feeling

Cliffhangers - leaving your characters dangling

Say it with passion

Two per cent - shortening the odds against getting published

Start with a bang

A great beginning

Whose eyes do you see through?

The three phases of plot

"Hello, I'm Ren Hunter."

Where do your characters live?

Creating charismatic characters

Where do you get your ideas?