by kev_partner | 25th Jul 2016 | Thoughts
What a gorgeous July morning in the south of the UK. Looking up, I'm struck by both the wonder of the universe and man's impact on our corner of it. The blue colour is caused by the fact that blue light (which has a shorter wavelength than red) is scattered...
by kev_partner | 24th Jul 2016 | Thoughts
Buy any book on writing (including Stephen King's excellent "On Writing") and you'll hear the same thing trotted out time and again – make writing every day a habit.Now, I agree wholeheartedly with this, however, there are two ways to make this...
by kev_partner | 24th Jul 2016 | Thoughts
I’ve always been fascinated by cuttlefish. Their calcium carbonate internal “shells” were once a common sight on Southsea beach (on England’s south coast where I lived when my girls were young) and were collected and used to keep our budgies...
by kev_partner | 21st Jun 2016 | Advice, For Authors, Writing Tools
Want to get more writing done? Or, indeed, any work that involves sitting at a computer. Buy yourself a cheap kitchen timer and choose a time between 15 minutes and, say, 35 minutes (start small). Press Start and work on your project exclusively until the beeper goes...
by kev_partner | 5th May 2016 | Advice, For Authors, Writing Tools
I’ve heard Draft2Digital mentioned a couple of times, including on The Creative Penn podcast. I’ve three books published with Kindle Direct Publishing and had made the decision to remove the two lesser sellers from KDP Select and see whether wider...
