by nikkicopleston | Nov 5, 2019 | Blog
The challenge of writing a novel in a month is inspiring, strenuous and – for most of us – daunting. Yet thousands of writers register to take part in NaNoWriMo every year, many forming smaller networks to keep each other on track when the effort of...
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 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...
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...