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Blog postIn Which We Share Our Goals
Yes, it’s the middle of February, but here at the Novel Points of View blog we are putting our writerly resolutions for 2019 in black and white for all the world to see.
Victoria says:
Some years are busier than others, but I think 2019 will be up there as one of my busiest and will dictate my 2019 resolutions.
First up is the release of the 5th book in my Cornish Tales Series. The cover will be revealed this coming week an -
Blog postCould You Dictate Your Written Work?
2018 will go down in history as a milestone in my writing life. I got the flu in late December and it lingered into January. On February 20th – the day before my birthday – I fell and broke my arm. This wasn’t a typical break, mind you. When I do things, I don’t mess around. I shattered my radius and also broke my ulna. The break required a major surgical repair that knocked me flat for a good two months, with another two months of occupational therapy. -
Blog postWhen I began writing, way back in 2003, I quickly decided that I wouldn’t give up the day job. I didn’t want to put the kind of pressure on my writing that comes with needing to earn enough to pay the mortgage and the bills and put food on the table etc. Back then, my writing income was only ever a few hundred a year, from selling short stories to women’s magazines. I enjoyed writing, loved the buzz I got from selling something, and had fun spending that extra little income on treats for myself.
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Blog postI’m celebrating an anniversary this year that if somebody back in the 1990s had suggested would happen I would have laughed and told them not to be ridiculous.
This year Richard and I will have been living in France for twenty years. 20 years!! Still find it hard to believe.
It was not a conscious decision on our part to move to France - that is, we didn’t sit down and make plans for a new life in a foreign country back in 1999. We simply decided to take a longish -
Blog postAfter the fun of the festive season, mid-January can feel dreary, which is probably why, traditionally, it is a busy time for travel agents. And so in the spirit of remembering that summer isn’t too far away, I’m offering a sunshine filled post.
KEY WESTHemingway's House, Key West
A couple of years ago I had the absolute joy of visiting the Florida Keyes, travelling to the very tip of the peninsula to spend time in Key West. It’s a city I’d long romanticised and longed to visit – the -
Blog postJanuary is a strange month. It can have the aura of optimism (new beginnings) or dread of what is to come. It is also the best month to start a diary.
I kept a daily diary between the ages of 11 and 17 years old. Although I have rarely looked at them in detail, I still keep them safe in a battered cardboard box that has seen better days. The diaries vary in size and quality, ranging from a tailor-made book (with a lock to keep out prying eyes), to bulky A4 notepads which threaten to -
Blog postI don't make New Year Resolutions ..... not since the time I bought a very expensive, leather, diary vowing to write something in it every day and didn't get past 11th January. But I do have a little homily for a bit of forward-thinking. I call it my BECAUSE I CAN principle. I apply it to all sorts of things ..... having to face the dreaded dentist's chair I tell myself that my now no longer with us next-door-neighbour, Judy, would love to be in that position, so I sit there and grimace and bea
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Blog postThe old year is ticking to its close and it’s time to review my reading and writing resolutions from January. I made two, one more ambitious than the other and I can't be certain that I’ve fulfilled either of them because my main failure, as usual is in record-keeping.
I challenged myself to read an average of a book a week and to write an average of 1000 words a day — so, over the year, 52 books and 365,000 words. You wouldn’t have thought either was too hard to keep track of, but -
Blog postThis week over on Novel Points of View we’re struggling with a conundrum: what, if anything, do our characters have in common?
Jennifer (Jo) says:
This is something of a problem for me at one level, because while some of my characters have something in common, I don’t always bother to tell you. So, for example, my male main characters are all football fans (as are some of my female ones). It’ll be there in their character profiles, but it won't necessarily make it into -
Blog postThis week I’m sharing a project that I worked on which is near and dear to my heart. A wonderful group of authors has used their collective brilliance to publish a collection of short stories, the proceeds of which will be donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. I was honoured to write the foreword to this book. I am sharing that with you here this week in hopes that your interest will be sparked. Here’s a bit about the book.
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Blog postWarning: if you are of a sensitive disposition and rude words upset you, please don’t read this blog post. It is about swearing in novels, and therefore contains some ‘naughty’ words by necessity, to illustrate my points.
I write dual timeline fiction, where a historical mystery is uncovered and resolved in the present day. My books do reasonably well and get mostly good reviews, but I have had a couple of reviews complaining about the ‘bad language’ and recently was contacted via my websi -
Blog postI was writing a scene in my current wip this week where one of my characters, Vicky a would be writer, discovers a wonderful summer house in the garden of the villa she was staying in on holiday. She immediately decided that that was where she’d spend her time writing. The garden was beautiful, the view of the blue Mediterranean wonderful and she just knew that her writing would be inspired in this place. I got so carried away with my vision of this summerhouse that I began to research writ
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Blog postIt’s a truth universally acknowledged that short story writing is a fantastic way for would-be novelists to perfect their craft.For years I ignored this wisdom offered to beginner writers, not because I’m arrogant or thought I knew better, rather the opposite. I didn’t believe I was creative enough to continually imagine a company of new characters and settings. What I’d failed to grasp was that I didn’t need a mountainous stack of short story ideas all clamouring to be told. All that was requir
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Blog postBuildings can form a great backdrop to a scene, but they can also be used to tell us about the characters’ mind-set, past and even their future. Buildings can show the passing of time, add tension to a scene or show the class the character has been born into or aspire to join. Buildings are an amazing tool and are, in my opinion, not used to their full potential, yet they can draw a reader into the story and help them to walk in the footsteps of the characters themselves.
An example of thi -
Blog post'Where do you get your ideas from? Oh for a ten pound note for every time I've been asked that. I've now had over 300 short stories published, plus serials, articles, and now my eighth novel is to be published next month. I can't say I've ever analysed where my ideas come from, but for the purposes of this blogpost I thought I'd give it a go. CHRISTMAS AT STRAND HOUSE is set, well, at Christmas. a time for families and friends to get together. What if you have no family? Or friends, only acquai
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Blog postBeautiful stars... (public domain)I’ve been thinking about stars
No, not those stars. Not the ones that twinkle in a clear summer sky. I’m talking about the ones that corrupt and compromise you, the ones that make you feel bad about yourself, the ones that hammer home your own irrationality and, days, weeks or even months later, leave you riddled with guilt.
They’re the stars that review sites insist you allocate before you leave your thoughts on a book.
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Blog postSex - a topic that's not been covered on this blog before. So here goes ..... first up is Victoria Cornwall. 'I don't have a problem writing sex scenes, partly because I find describing the easiest part of the writing process. I am also a former nurse who taught sex health promotion to teenagers for several years so if I can cope with that, I can cope with most things. However, I don't use graphic names to describe a mechanical process with what might be considered modern language. There are s
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Blog postThese days we all know if we want to make a career out of our writing or, whisper it, even to make some money, we have to treat it like running a small business. We also have to put ourselves out there on social media - something I personally fail at dismally most of the time, much too far out of my comfort zone. We also know, especially if we’re traditionally published, a lot of things are out of our control and down to our publisher and those dratted things on Amazon etc known as algorit
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Blog postWhat do 1976, 1984 and 2018 have in common? Along with a few other occasions, these are years when the Haweswater reservoir in Cumbria has dried out so much that the ruins of a village are exposed.
Haweswater in drought, 2018. Image copyright Jennifer Young
Mardale Green was demolished in the 1930s to make way for the reservoir, which is the main source of water for Manchester. A dam was built, and the small lake that had graced the valley expanded. A whole community was lost -
Blog postI’m going to break with tradition today and share a blog post that Heather Webb wrote on WritersUnboxed.com. I read this post once, twice, and a third time. The writing is stellar – not surprising. Heather is a master. She handles this potentially incendiary issue with grace and insight. I’ve provided a link to WritersUnboxed at the end of the post, along with more info about Heather and her amazing books.
Happy writing, friends. May the muse be with you.
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Blog postLast week I received the exciting news that my short story, The Whole Hog, is to be published in Northwords Now– the literary magazine of the north. I’m a writer - I’ve had a short story accepted – what makes that so special? Well the reason I’m thrilled is because it’s the first short story I’ve written in Doric.
WHAT IS DORIC?But what is Doric? Unless you live in Scotland then it’s unlikely you will be familiar with the term. In the past, even the majority of Scots paid little attention -
Blog postI've lost count how many times I've written a scene describing the season in some way. Often, my fictional timeline is in a different season to the one I'm experiencing in reality. I've written about the burnt amber leaves of autumn while wearing shorts, a t-shirt and with the pungent smell of suntan lotion on my skin. I've written about the blustering gales of winter as I munch on an Easter egg. I've written about the fresh new shoots of spring ... well you get the picture.
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Blog postThis was probably not the low point, but it's typical...I’m writing a book.
I’m always writing a book. In fact, I’m always writing several books, each one at a different stage. One or more are ideas in my head; one is at the planning stage; one is first draft; one at an advanced second/third draft; one requires a final polish; and one is with my agent (I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of saying that).
When I’m talking about the process, I always tell people how much I lo -
Blog postHello and welcome to another in our get to know our team and their writingseries. Today it’s the turn of historical romance writer, Victoria Cornwall and her latest release, The Daughter of River Valley. Victoria’s debut novel, The Thief’s Daughter, was published in 2017 by Choc Lit, introducing readers to her Cornish Tales series, as well as being selected as a finalist for the prestigious Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Joan Hessayon Award. Whilst penning novels, Victoria also loves connecti
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Blog post“Man cannot discover new oceans, unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” Andre Gide
Batten down the hatches, everyone. I’m starting a new book and am chock full of maritime metaphors, as is often the case when I’m sitting down to that ever intimidating blank screen.
For me, starting a new book is similar to getting on the SS Minnow with Gilligan and the Skipper. There’s a very good chance that rough water will be forthcoming, and a shipwreck will more likely than not
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