Sarah Duncan's Blog

After my posts on index cards, I was interested by some of the comments about rewriting and plotting on computer. Now, I'm a dinosaur a...

It sounds really simple. You put together your first three chapters, your synopsis, your covering letter ready to send round to some agents...

I get Google Alerts so I know when my name gets mentioned on the internet. The only trouble is, my name is hardly unusual so I get alerts f...

A couple of queries have come up about exactly HOW I use index cards. I don't do anything complicated like plan out scenes using Excel,...

When I started writing I wrote short stories, and it became very clear that there were two sorts of short stories: those that won short stor...

When you think about it, what I've been writing about most of this week has been character arc, although I've put it in terms of plo...

I've been struggling a bit with my current book.  It hasn't been coming together in the way I hoped despite several drafts and sessi...