Leilanie Stewart

Writing that confronts the nature of self
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  • School is out for the summer and that means I am off work for eight weeks. My little one is also off school for summer, which means I’ll be [...]

    Summer writing plans

    July 3, 2022
  • Recently someone asked me about how many words I tend to aim for when I’m writing a novel. Generally speaking, I tend to aim for 80,000 [...]

    How long should a novel be?

    June 20, 2022
  • What constitutes supporting an Indie author? Let’s ponder a few scenarios, shall we? 1. If you buy a book by an Indie author you know, but [...]

    How can you support an author without spending money?

    May 28, 2022
  • About a decade ago, I was working in a secondary school in London and running a creative writing group for gifted and talented young people. The [...]

    Is talent or skills more important for writing novels?

    May 25, 2022
  • Do you want to know the first thing that people say when I tell them I’m a writer? “I hope you make lots of money”. Is that [...]

    Motivation to write when it’s not about the money

    May 17, 2022
  • In my experience, writing a novel is the literary equivalent of acting: an actor has to do research to prepare for a role, in order to become the [...]

    Getting ideas and doing research for novels

    May 12, 2022
  • During the dozen years my work has been published in magazines and by book publishers, I’ve become accustomed to receiving beta reader [...]

    Trigger warnings and sensitivity readers for controversial fiction

    May 8, 2022
  • Creative writing is a skill. It’s a craft that takes time and effort to learn a set of skills and to hone those skills. Some folks choose [...]

    Learning how to write creatively

    May 4, 2022
  • Lately I’ve seen so many beautifully arranged pictures on social media of authors showing their picture perfect writing spaces, so I [...]

    A still life of my messy writing desk

    April 26, 2022
  • If you’re an Indie author, chances are you can relate when I say that getting reviews of your book is hard work. If I had a review for [...]

    Getting book reviews: using Booksprout, Bookroar, book bloggers and others

    April 23, 2022

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