by Brooklyn | 2 Mar, 2022 | Snippits
by Brooklyn | 6 Feb, 2022 | Reflection
Everyone says: ‘Write one book at a time.’ ‘One step at a time,’ ‘One foot in front of the other.’ Heck, even I’ve said it! However, I’ve never been good at stepping. Or dancing, to extend the metaphor from my previous...
by Brooklyn | 13 Jan, 2022 | How to..., Thyme Ryder
So you’ve written a novel! Congratulations! That’s a bloody hard thing to do, and if you’ve written a choose-your-own (CYO) style nonlinear narrative, there is an extra layer of complication which accompanies that task! So pat yourself on the back...
by Brooklyn | 31 Dec, 2021 | Reflection
As a Teacher by trade, I have found that I often write the phrase “in a timely manner.” It has such meaning, doesn’t it? It’s so laden with expectations. It basically says “stick to the bloody timeline” or “where are your time...
by Brooklyn | 13 Dec, 2021 | How to..., Thyme Ryder
In my research into querying agents and publishers, I stumbled upon ‘#Pitmad’, a quarterly pitching competition which uses the length of a Twitter ‘tweet’ to ‘sell’ your project to industry professionals. If an agent or publishing...
