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Everyone has a novel in them. You’ve heard that I’m sure. But there’s a world of difference between having an idea for a story [...]
March 16, 2023
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Last week on Instagram, TikTok and Twitter I discovered that statistics from a blog post I wrote a year ago (How many people who write a novel [...]
February 9, 2023
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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 [...]
April 13, 2022
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Out of curiosity this week I decided to search for some novel writing statistics, specifically how many people write novels. The results were [...]
March 16, 2022
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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 [...]
February 24, 2022
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Every time I’ve worked on a new novel (five completed: one binned; one on submission; two published and one forthcoming this year) [...]
February 18, 2022
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In a previous post, not too long ago no less, I mentioned that I was an old-fashioned sort of girl, the kind who likes to sketch out first drafts [...]
July 2, 2019
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This month, I’m very excited to have finished the final draft of my second novel. It’s a fantasy novel this time, the idea for which [...]
March 23, 2015
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29 Nov 2013: Ingredients for writing a novel Ingredients: Coffee (optional, but it does keep one awake) 2 notebooks (one for story research, the [...]
November 29, 2013
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Finally, after a decade of writing, submitting, discarding, archiving, drafting, redrafting, rewriting and tireless editing, it felt good to have [...]
March 27, 2012
Leilanie Stewart 