Getting an agent

One of the points that came out of the Wendy Goldman Rohm's recent writing retreat was how important it is to have a literary agent if you are trying to get your novel published. I have put some information on my website about approaching literary agents. Hope this proves useful.

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Describing the steam...

Kate Mosse (author of Labyrinth) was on BCC News this morning and she made the what-might-be-obvious point 'To be a writer, you need to write'. Basically what she meant you need to be looking for any excuse to write something. The example she gave was when waiting for the kettle to boil, instead of waiting, or doing cardio-vascular exercise, grab your notebook (any self-respecting writer alway has one to hand) and just write something - possibly, as Kate suggested, look at the kettle and describe the steam.

This 'observational writing' is a very good exercise, as catering to the senses is a crucial part of writing a novel, short story or poem.

Repetition...a writer's cardinal sin!

and it begins....

Welcome to my Blog, part of my website (paulfitzsimons.com/paulthewriter), on which I will share my joys, adventures and despairs (not too many of them I hope) that go with writing a novel...while trying to get another one published.
I will probably take the occasional break from all the 'novelling' (I know, not an actual word) with the odd short story or poem, which i will publish on the website and would appreciate your thoughts. Be kind!

I hope it will be of help to fellow writers (no, you're not alone...definitely not) and entertaining for the rest of you...hopefully, you'll be laughing with me...

Enjoy

(This is only repetition if you're reading this after coming from the website)

Right, back to procrastination...I mean, writing...