by nikkicopleston | Oct 1, 2017 | Blog
At the last of this summer’s writing boot camp sessions, Brenda was reading from her new work-in-progress. She’d only just started writing it – a story set in the countryside in the early years of the 20th Century – so as she was reading it...
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 | Apr 29, 2017 | Blog
Where are you when you read? Where are you when you write? I don’t mean, Where are you physically – although a Greek island in the sun or a remote bothy in the Scottish Highlands sounds pretty appealing, depending on your temperament. I mean, Where are you...
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 25, 2017 | Blog
A year ago, I submitted the manuscript of my crime novel ‘The Shame of Innocence’ to Silver Crow Books, a new service begun by Frome Writers’ Collective. During the next few weeks, trained readers assessed my manuscript and compiled a report for...