Your first draft sucks. Get over it.
I finished editing my first draft over the weekend, but it didn’t feel like much of an achievement. I initially wrote the novel, and started this blog, because I wanted
I finished editing my first draft over the weekend, but it didn’t feel like much of an achievement. I initially wrote the novel, and started this blog, because I wanted
A lot of people tend to be surprised at how much I do and how I find time to write. Given we’re coming up to NaNoWriMo again, I’d talk about
Laundry Man, also known as Jakob Boyd, is part spoken word poet, part anarchist and next month, he’s launching his first full length book. I first met, Jakob when I
Continue readingAuthor Q and A: Jakob Boyd on politics, anarchy and building communities
Next month is NaNoWriMo and I have an idea for a novel. I’ve had this idea since NaNoWriMo 2017 and have been running through different storylines in my head for
Let’s talk about getting to that second draft. For me, the hardest part of editing the first draft has been reworking the plot. The plot in my novel is quite
Continue readingIt’s okay for the second draft to take a while
Yeah, so, the last few weeks have sucked. I haven’t done anything on my digital poetry project. I’ve only edited one chapter of my novel. I have written four poems,
Creating worlds is hard. Or, should I say, creating believable worlds is hard. Thankfully, earlier this week, I was able to sit down with an expert. I e-met science-fiction/fantasy author Lee
Continue readingAuthor Q and A: Lee Battersby on creating worlds
This week just been I moved house (and got sick, thanks Rob/Garth!). I also, finally, got to announce that I’ll be an invited artist at the 2018 National Young Writers
Continue readingTwitterbots, digital poetry and (not editing) my novel
I finally got around to rewriting the opening chapters of my novel, and it’s taken me a very long time. I did no research before writing the first draft and,
Scott-Patrick Mitchell (SPM) is a performance poet based in Perth, Western Australia who is constantly taking risks and experimenting with new forms of writing. He’s recently started writing fiction, and I’ve