Writer, interrupted. (Page 101)

Writing Apr 12, 2016 1 min read Free

J is for Journal

[https://i2.wp.com/stuartlennon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Journal.jpg?ssl=1] I keep a journal. In the past, I used a brilliant app called Day One. This allowed me to update from my computer, my iPad and even my phone. I could ‘geo-tag’, add photos, a soundtrack

Writing Apr 11, 2016 1 min read Free

I is for Index Cards

[https://i0.wp.com/stuartlennon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/indexcard_opt.jpg?ssl=1] Index Cards – This template is courtesy of my writing buddy Amanda Fleet. (Her blog is here [http://www.amandafleet.co.uk].) Her soon to be released novel, ‘The Wrong Kind of Clouds’ was written using

Writing Apr 09, 2016 1 min read Free

H is for Hemingway

[https://i0.wp.com/stuartlennon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Ernest-Hemingway.jpg?ssl=1] Ernest Hemingway. I can’t imagine that anyone has not heard of him, but if you haven’t, go and read any of his work right now. I’ll wait. This chap could write. I realise

Writing Apr 08, 2016 1 min read Free

G is for Grapes. Angry Grapes.

[https://i0.wp.com/stuartlennon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Grapes.jpg?ssl=1] “The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck

Writing Apr 07, 2016 1 min read Free

F is for Fountain Pens

[https://i1.wp.com/stuartlennon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Fountainpens.jpg?ssl=1] From bottom to top, a Lamy 2000, a ‘Cult Pen’ by Kaweco and a Limited Edition Charles Dickens Meisterstuck from Montblanc. I had not written with a fountain pen in years. My writing buddy Amanda and

Writing Apr 06, 2016 1 min read Free

E is for Editing

[https://i1.wp.com/stuartlennon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/editing.jpg?ssl=1] ‘Editing? That’s just checking the spelling and grammar isn’t it? Computer does most of it, doesn’t it?’ I honestly believed that. In my posts for C and D, I wrote about creativity and

Writing Apr 05, 2016 1 min read Free

D is for Deadlines

[https://i2.wp.com/stuartlennon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/deadline.jpg?ssl=1] Sipping Champagne for breakfast, cocktails in the afternoon, whipping off literary masterpieces on a monthly basis. That was what being a writer was going to be. No need to go into the office, no need to

Writing Apr 04, 2016 1 min read Free

C is for Creativity

[https://i0.wp.com/stuartlennon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Creativity-definition-1.jpg?ssl=1] In my last post, I wrote about a growing addiction to stationery – particularly to notebooks. With a new notebook and a full pen you can go anywhere. You can be anyone. At the end of the

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