Creating Character Names Many writers struggle with thinking up character names. I’ve always found it easy, they just come to me on demand. (It is thinking up plots I struggle with!) I gave some advice
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PB Imagined
As I’ve said before, I will never use AI for writing, but pretty much everything else is on the table. For me, the most interesting application is in image and video generation. My original cover
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Read the Bad Katie Adventures Free Online
The Adventures of Bad Katie are a little pet side project I’ve been working on over the past few years. If ever you are fortunate enough to meet the singer Katie Melua (Nine Million Bicycles)
See full articleWhy I’ll Never Use AI For Writing (but perhaps everything else)
There has been so much hype over AI for the last couple of years that it is easy to get bored of hearing about it and maybe wish it would just go away. Well, it
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Microsoft have just unleashed their revolutionary artificial intelligence ChatBot upon the world. You can find it by clicking the blue Bing icon in the Microsoft Edge browser. On the face of it, it’s just a
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The Adventures Of Bad Katie
If you have read The Planet Baggers and are a fan of my style of humour then, whilst you patiently await The Space Hoppers, perhaps I could point you in the direction of a series
See full articleFinding Character Names
It seems a lot of writers have trouble coming up with names for their characters. Thankfully, I’ve never had any trouble doing that—it’s the story itself that gives me sleepless nights. Telling you that names
See full articleUsing Synonyms And Rhymes In Lyrics and Poems
Many people find writing poems and lyrics difficult. So here’s my tip—keyword brainstorming.Say you wanted to write a song about being dumped via a text message. Identify the keywords—in this case “text” and “dumped”. Then
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My search for the holy grail of text editors, the one app to rule them all, seems to be never-ending. The trouble is that I may be expecting too much from one piece of software—I
See full articleUlysses: The way to write a novel
If you want to be good at anything in life it pays to use the best tools and equipment you can get. The words “budget” and “value” should not be on your radar when it
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