Hello and welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts – making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. This is a weekly blog about editing fiction. Hello! Most weeks we look at the first page of a novice author’s novel or short story and see if we can think of ways to make it … Read more
Death Of 1000 Cuts Archives – The Best Writing Podcast 2018
Hello and welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts – making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. This is a blog for fiction writers, mostly about making your stories better, sometimes about the hard process of making them at all. A new one appears every Thursday. Often, I’ll look at a novice author’s … Read more
Afternoon! Welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts – making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. I feel a bit funny this week. Nervous about my writing, nervous about other things. I think, in these situations, it’s best to acknowledge your feelings without giving them too much credit. Just be like, yup, I … Read more
Bonjour and welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts – making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. This is a blog about writing fiction and rewriting fiction. Authors seem singular amongst the professions in their desire to hand out free, unsolicited advice on their craft and I, dear, faithful friends, am no different … Read more
Welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts – making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. Hope you’re well, dear friends. If this is your first time, this is a blog about writing and editing fiction. Most weeks we look at an author’s first page and find ways of making it better. If you’d … Read more
Hello and welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts – making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. Do you want to hear about how busy I am? No, of course you don’t. That would be tedious and beside the point. Still, I feel swamped right now, what with gigs in Edinburgh, Bristol and … Read more
Hello and welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts – making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. Every Thursday we look at the first page of a novice author’s novel or short story and think of ways to make it better. If you’d like to submit your work for consideration, please read the … Read more
Salut et welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts – making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. Each week I write about fiction writing with a focus on editing work to make it suck considerably less. Most of the time that takes the form of my looking at the first page of someone’s … Read more
Hello and welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts – making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. Each week I write about writing, which might sound like a self-referential spiral whirlpooling up its own backside, but is actually less pretentious than if I used some other medium to talk about writing – for … Read more
Hello and welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts – making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. It’s not been an easy week, for a number of reasons, including contracting some kind of gastric bug that has seen me lying in bed clutching my gut and grimacing like some ham actor milking his … Read more
I’m going to this year’s 9 Worlds convention – it’s my first ever con, and I am a new-minted Fantasy author, and I am nervous and excited and fully-expecting to sort of stagger round in a baffled haze, missing stuff. As part of 9 Worlds I am going to be doing the first ever LIVE … Read more
Good afternoon and welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts, making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. I hope you’re all well. Sorry for the late posting of this and last week’s installment, and the missing episode the week before. We’ve had some sadness in the family and it’s been a difficult time. … Read more
Hello and welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts – making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. I’m sorry I missed last week’s post, and that this week’s is late. It’s been a difficult time for a number of reasons, and we’ve had some sadness. Life is often like that, I guess. So … Read more
Hello and welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts – making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. This is a weekly blog about writing and editing your work to make it better. Most weeks we take a novice author’s first page and look at ways of making it better. I’d love your first … Read more
Hello and welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts – making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. This is a blog for writers and readers who are interested in the craft of making text suck less. Most weeks we look at a novice author’s first page and suggest some ways of making it … Read more
Hello dear friends and welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts – making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. Each week we take a novice author’s first page and look at ways of making it better. If you’d like to contribute the first page of your novel or short story, please read our … Read more
Ungh and welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts – making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. If you’d like to submit your work, please read our submission guidelines. Please buy my novel, The Honours. It’s not shit (here’s the Guardian review) and you will be contributing to the possibility that I will … Read more
Bonjour and welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts – making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. You know what? I’ve been finding writing really stressful and difficult over the last few weeks. I think, weirdly, it comes from having people say nice things about The Honours. When I wrote it, I really … Read more
Welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts – making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. Each week we look at a novice writer’s first page and try to think up ways to make it better. If you’d like to submit your first page of your novel or story, please read my submission guidelines. … Read more
Oof – good day, and welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts – making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. If you’d like to submit your own work to this blog, please read the Submission Guidelines. If you’d like to buy my debut novel, The Honours, to show your support, you can do … Read more
Hello and welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts, making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. This is a blog about writing, reading and editing, where we look at ways of making stories better. Most weeks I take a novice author’s first page and look at what works and what could be improved. … Read more
Hello and welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts – making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. This is a blog for writers, readers and editors, about ways we can take fiction and make it better. The blog appears every Thursday, and most weeks we look at the first page from a novice … Read more
I’ve written previously about the tensions of writing a novel – specifically that process of mourning an old bit that wasn’t working, and the new growth that springs up in the aftermath, once the dead part has had a chance to mulch down. And I do think this is one of the most important attitudinal … Read more
Bonsoir et welcome to Death Of 1000 Cuts – making you an awesome writer, one cut at a time. Every Thursday this blog appears, giving you advice on writing and rewriting. In a couple of weeks, we will have been going two years! Christ. My debut novel, The Honours, came out on Thursday. It’s in … Read more
It’s my book birthday today. The Honours is finally released into the wild. It’s in shops. Yesssss. It occurred to me that, rather than farting on about myself and how I feel (spoiler: I feel good), it might be worth acknowledging that books don’t get written by one person. That’s a romantic myth. I had … Read more