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Originally posted on Story Empire: Hello, SEers! Mae here with you today as we enter a new month. Happy first day of July! In June, I raised the question “are writers born or made?” Today, I want to follow up with another question: can the writing gene be inherited? Think about the Bronte sisters. Neither…

Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo: You could see, just from Nick’s posture, that something was very wrong. As I walked towards the garden from the street where I had left the car, there was just something in the bleak way he was holding himself, looking out across the pond. So I was at…

Originally posted on Robbie's inspiration: On Saturday, Michael said I am not a normal mother. Just to give a bit of context to his comment, he had climbed into bed with us at 7am on Saturday morning, and we had a brief conversation about what each of us would be doing that morning. I was…

The Silent Eye The first stop of the afternoon was a familiar one; we had made a point of visiting the magnificent Sueno Stone on our last trip to the area. It is the tallest carved Pictish stone in Scotland and shows scenes of war and conquest… with the usual Pictish wholesale hacking off of…

The Silent Eye Sunday morning already… the weekend was slipping by incredibly fast, but we knew Dean had a lot planned for the final morning of the workshop. Our day began by packing the car, necessarily skipping breakfast… which was to prove a bit disastrous as things turned out… and re-inflating the dodgy tyre yet…

Originally posted on When Angels Fly: Regular readers know that most of my stories began as dreams and that I have included several of them in my science fiction series, Pearseus, as well. But I’m hardly the only one, as this Infographic by Sleep Advisor will show you. From Mary Shelley to Steven King, here…

Originally posted on Story Empire: Hi, gang. Craig here again with another of my Expansion packs. These are intended to enhance your stories without being absolute requirements. They mix in well with the series I wrote about The Hero’s Journey, also known as the Writing Monomyth. I have to confess, I’ve only dabbled with this…

Originally posted on Entertaining Stories: Today was my flex day and I had a pretty good list of projects. This was the list: Editing on Serang Work up three small critique sections Send out the shtick for a new Lisa Burton Radio show Read more of a fantastic novel I got a lot done, but…