Over the years, around 25 thousand of you have visited my blogposts about how to start writing, keep writing, refine your skills and persist through the tortuous climb to publication. On certain days of the week, groups of you (especially in the United States) would drop by and I sent you all my special support and the warmth of my heart. Recently though, sadly there’s been an invasive change in the pattern of visits. So I’ve taken the posts down* and am treating them as the rough first draft of a new book.

I hope you’ll bear with me while I finesse the book and do my best to find a publisher. Meanwhile, I send you all my very warmest wishes and encouragement – only you can tell your stories and I can’t wait to read them when they’re published. Happy writing!

*I’ve put a couple back by popular request:

A publisher or agent is interested – what happens next? and my most popular post of all

Through-line – the single most vital trick in writing a novel