“You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money’s in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.” – Larry Niven As a short story writer I have to agree with this one. I find short stories are tough to write and teach you a lot about writing, especially … More Writing Quote Wednesday.
Hey Everyone, Today’s update is going to be short as I was unwell for most of the week and didn’t get much writing done. The only thing I have been able to work on is the next installment of the serial I started on my blog last week – The Amberly Chronicles. Episode two will … More A Writerly Update 45.
Hey Everyone, I haven’t done a whole lot of writing this week but I have been doing writing related stuff. I have decided to enter Pitch Wars with my YA epic fantasy. Pitch Wars has to be one of the best competitions around. The first round is the mentor round. 75 mentors pick one entry, … More A Writerly Update 44.
Sorry I haven’t updated my Open Submissions page in so long. The good news is that I have updated it now. Here are the new places to submit your stories to that I added: 1) White Ribbon Writing Competition – Australia Only. From the website: Break the Silence and open up. This writing competition is … More New Places To Submit.
Hi Everyone, Sorry this is a day late, but I was writing into the night last night and this post slipped my mind. As I’ve told you, I am participating in the 50k in 30 days challenge organised by the Romance Writers Of Australia. Writing 50k in 30 days is so much harder than I … More A Writerly Update 36.
Hi everyone, and welcome to this week’s writerly update. Unfortunately I was unable to write for the first three days of this week, but I did get some writing done on the rest of the days. I did a first draft of a picture book that I feel has real potential. I knocked out a … More A Writerly Update 32.
Hi everyone, welcome to this week’s writerly update. It’s been a short story week for me this week. On Monday I got inspired to write a fantasy short story and sat down and wrote 14 A4 pages by hand. I’m really getting into this writing by hand thing. I wrote more of it on Tuesday … More A Writerly Update 31.
Megan came out of the book store with four books tucked under her arm and an empty wallet. She shouldn’t really have bought the last one. Okay, she really shouldn’t have bought more than one, but she couldn’t help it, there were just too many good books. Why did they always have to come out … More YA Book Lover: A Short Story.
Hi Everyone! I have survived another week of the school holidays and am happy to report I was more productive this week. The kids go back to school on Tuesday! *Happy dances* It will be so nice to get back into my regular routine again. I’ve mainly been writing at night. I don’t like doing … More A Writerly Update 29.
Hi Everyone, I’ve had a fairly productive week writing wise. I contacted the person I wanted to beta read my YA epic fantasy and she said she would read it 🙂 So while that is happening I’ve decided to work on the next draft of Rift, my YA sci-fi. I have gone through the first … More A Writerly Update 26.
Rochelle L. Sharpe 