Thoughts & fiction from a blonde writer
Welcome to The Diary of Roxy Collins – The Serious Relationship Series. Read Roxy’s diary entries, recording the emotional highs and lows of her new serious relationship with Marcus, the man of her dreams, who lives on the posh side of town, drives a flash car, is solvent and doesn’t mind the wobbly bits on […]
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This can be a troubling situation for a writer and worthy of a blog post. I have recently suffered from this literary affliction and its a tough one to wrestle with readers. You will have created an amazing fictional character who lights up your creative world. They are like an angel. For some strange reason […]
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You enter the writing world as a fresh-faced newbie with bags of enthusiasm, a head full of stories and the belief that it won’t take you long to achieve literary success! It will be a matter of months before your work starts a publishing bidding war. Sadly this belief starts to fade the more you […]
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When fantasy author A.S. Akkalon told me she had been studying the online world of writers and learning about their peculiar ways I knew she had to write me a guest post on her findings. Posts on this topic are always welcome on BlondeWriteMore. A.S. Akkalon describes herself as a fantasy author who puts dreams […]
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I became a writer for a number of reasons; I wanted an excuse to wear more tweed, I thought I had a J.K. Rowling look about me (after a few gin & tonics), I needed to do something with the many voices in my head, my obsession with pretty notebooks needed to go up to the […]
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The creative process for producing any kind of art is both magical and messy. It doesn’t matter whether you paint, draw, play an instrument or write, your art will sometimes surprise and delight you and other times it will cause mess, confusion and creative suffering. Magical and messy moments for a writer usually occur on […]
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When one of my favourite bloggers contacted me to say she had a cracking guest post up her sleeve, I was so excited I did some high leg kicks and cartwheels in the garden. Sadly there is no photo evidence of this great celebration. Rita Bhatha from www.butismileanyway.com not only has a great blog but she […]
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If you are going on holiday this post will come in useful, as it will help you to spot the holiday bookworm in your party. Ideally you want to be identifying holiday bookworms before you travel so that you can plan ahead for the quiet spells…whilst they are busy being a holiday bookworm and you are […]
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Do you want to get to know your fictional characters? Do you feel like you and your characters need to bond? Don’t despair! I have an amazing new trick for writing better characters. It involves two of my favourite pastimes; writing and shopping. As writers we need to create interesting and compelling characters because no […]
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Welcome to my weekly series – Vampire & Single. Last week Henry told Sasha they could not have anymore contact as she needed to find her own path. Boris, the guy who bit Sasha a year ago, turned up unexpectedly on her doorstep and Emily, her best friend, revealed she was back dating Viktor, Boris’s […]
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