Sarah Duncan's Blog

The standard length for an adult novel is 80,000-100,000 words and while you might just get away with 70,000 (or 110,000) you're not goi...

There are some people from whom the words just flow.  They write and write and write and I have to admit, as someone from whom the words hav...

I came across this post about cliched author poses on the web the other day and thought I had to share it.  I had some new author photograp...

What follows is my Judge’s Report for the Wells Short Story Competition A strong selection of stories with, remarkably, no obvious winne...

The flip side of the frustrating student is working with a receptive one. It is soooo satisfying working with another writer on their manus...

I've recently been to Venice. I stayed in a fabulous hotel I'd found on-line via TripAdvisor. Most of the reviews were complimentar...

I was scooting around the web and came across this great post on short story competition judging, and why stories failed to make the short ...