by Fiona Ross | Jun 26, 2017 | Articles
On the nose? They’ll punch yer lights out If you are so unsubtle as to mention fighting yer demons, or his, or hers, or theirs. Screenwriters, don’t, please. Not unless you are strictly within a supernatural, vampire or fantasy genre, and safely enclosed...
by Fiona Ross | Jun 23, 2017 | Articles
Genre-Rama Since I’m working on an adventure comedy animation story right now, I thought I’d collect ten animation movies with heart that inspire my writing. I love genre movies. They often take a bad rap. I don’t think the term ‘B Movie’ is officially used any more,...
by admin | Jun 21, 2017 | Articles
Second Skin, With Warts Calloused old hack I may be (fingers not soul, we hope). I think I’ve grown the extra skin of resistance every writer needs to survive the slings and arrows of outrageous feedback, but even I find it hard these days not to be pulled...
by Fiona Ross | Dec 18, 2016 | Articles
Spoiler Alert. This blog post is about me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Ha ha. I follow thought leader James Altucher. He called one of his best-sellers,”Choose Yourself.” I love that. Wish I’d thought of it. He mostly writes about “Me” and I love...
by Fiona Ross | Feb 18, 2016 | Articles
I’m pleased to publish this guest post by Shirley Williams, who previously contributed Thoughts From a Reader (link in text below). In this post, she discusses various approaches to writing fiction, as presented in the Future Learn course, Start Writing Fiction....
by Fiona Ross | Feb 7, 2016 | Articles
Let’s start with the unsubtle. I’m no expert on all this stuff. In Ogres onions and layers Part 2 I’m merely passing on to you what I’ve learnt to date. There’s so much I don’t know, but I hope I can save you time and tears with...
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