by nikkicopleston | May 19, 2017 | Blog
How do you get those words out of your head and onto the page or screen? Do you write a swift first draft and then go back over it, tidying it up and editing it as you go? Or do you worry away at your first chapter until it’s absolutely perfect, before carrying...
by nikkicopleston | Mar 19, 2017 | Blog
I wrote my first play when I was 8. It was called ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’. I’d heard the title and thought it sounded good, so I wrote my own little drama about a cat that climbs up onto a shed roof on a summer’s day and can’t get down....
by nikkicopleston | Feb 10, 2017 | Blog
Here’s a bit from The Shame of Innocence. D.I. Jeff Lincoln has bought a house ‘in need of modernisation’ as the estate agents say. Its garden backs onto Fountains, a more modern place that’s been empty ever since he moved into the Old...
by nikkicopleston | Aug 18, 2014 | Writing
“There’s no such thing as writer’s block!” Is that what you’ve been told? Every aspiring writer runs into Writer’s Block at some point, because they’ve run out of ideas or steam or confidence – or all three. Even the...