Leilanie Stewart

Writing that confronts the nature of self
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  • My life recently has been a steady juggle of balancing day work with literary time and family life. Since family life takes priority, I tend to [...]

    Read, write, edit, repeat

    April 13, 2022
  • I’m happy to say that after a couple of weeks of writer’s block because of anxiety at world events, I have been back to chipping away [...]

    Update on supernatural novel manuscripts 5 and 6

    March 31, 2022
  • Lately I’ve been asked on a few occasions about how long I’ve been writing and where I get my ideas. I told them that I’ve been [...]

    Novel insanity: I write therefore I am

    March 26, 2022
  • Happy World Poetry Day 2022. Instead of making a video reading this year (you can watch any of my previous poetry readings on my YouTube) I [...]

    Happy World Poetry Day 2022

    March 21, 2022
  • Out of curiosity this week I decided to search for some novel writing statistics, specifically how many people write novels. The results were [...]

    How many people who write a novel finish it and how many get published?

    March 16, 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
  • 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
  • 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

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