Leilanie Stewart

Writing that confronts the nature of self
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Author Archives: Leilanie Stewart

  • Today is International Women’s Day. Since I’ve been at a low point lately, I thought I’d cheer myself up by focusing on my [...]

    Happy International Women’s Day 2022

    March 8, 2022
  • Global events have sent my anxiety sky rocketing over the past week and I’m finding it harder lately to stick my happy mask on for the [...]

    Global events, anxiety and writer’s block

    March 5, 2022
  • Since it’s World Book Day, it’s time for a bit of a book tour of my back catalogue. I’m a fiction writer and a poet, so [...]

    Happy World Book Day 2022

    March 3, 2022
  • Writing a main character for a novel is a lot of fun. I enjoy thinking about all aspects of a character, even details I won’t later use in [...]

    Writing a main character: who is Kimberly in The Buddha’s Bone?

    February 27, 2022
  • So, I decided to work out how long each of my novels took from first draft to final draft or on to publication and I wasn’t expecting the [...]

    How long did it take to write my novels?

    February 24, 2022
  • Every time I’ve worked on a new novel (five completed: one binned; one on submission; two published and one forthcoming this year) [...]

    Writing two novels at once

    February 18, 2022
  • Happy Valentine’s Day 2022. I know lots of people who always lament this day of all things love as they think it’s only about [...]

    Happy Valentine’s Day – loving oneself counts too

    February 14, 2022
  • You know what? This post is mostly a checklist to myself to keep me on the straight and narrow, but if it helps you – great! So, here goes: [...]

    How to be a good novel writer

    February 10, 2022
  • Do you want to know something really crazy? I have written five novel manuscripts (two of those published, one binned, one on submission and one [...]

    Outlining and planning a novel

    February 5, 2022
  • Now that my supernatural horror manuscript (novel WIP#4) is complete and off to the printer for my editor to check, I have begun research for my [...]

    Novel research for WIP#5 and WIP#6

    February 1, 2022

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