Stop protecting your characters: trouble in fiction
I’ve tried to approach writing in terms of how much difficulty I can throw at my characters...
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Check the (historic) timetable!
Oban steamer timetable, April 1952 (Oban to Tobermory)
Somehow I thought the steamer that went from Mull to Oban would match up with the train timetables, but upon research in Bradshaw's for April 1952, I learned it absolutely did not.
Read MoreWriting a book blurb
Cinnamon Press asked me for a blurb for Cold Crash. I found marketing my own work really difficult, and I worked for ages on it.
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