I'm on a break from Are We Still Friends? while it's out on submission. It was a painful process but I was encouraged to try again by an agent at the Jericho London Writers' weekend and I promised myself that if I finished before going on holiday to Yorkshire, I could forget about it until September when all the if-you- haven't-heard-by-now-we're-not-interested periods will end. My initial draft for this blog was about that pain and the impact on a writer's mental health but,

is it distraction when you edit instead of researching your publishing path?

After losing use of my laptop for about three weeks I have been questioning my writing process. Before home computers I lacked the...

Today I went to the cemetery to put some flowers on my parent's grave. I dawdled on the five-minute walk home, chosing narrow pathways...

It's about making our second draft better than our first. And our third draft even better than that. This website is for some of us who...