The Writing Process

Origins of imagination and how it works for my writing

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For as long as I have been a sentient being, I was aware that I tended to live in my head. By that I mean that I can quite happily daydream (occasionally also night-dream) myself into all manner of places and situations, and also place other people and characters in those situations. Like many people diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome, I can, if I am motivated to do so, acquire enormous amounts of quite detailed information […]

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Interview with Rupert Ramsgate – Part 4

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I:  I went back to the Keys to interview Rupert for a second time about the writing process. Since I first interviewed him, some extracts have surfaced on his web site, and he has apparently had a tough-love conversation with his alter ego Belem Knight, and told him, as Rupert sketched in English vernacular, to “get his arse in gear” and write a book instead of doodling on chapters. This time, Rupert had two cats

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Inventing Stuff – Archipelagos

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One of the interesting aspects of writing fiction is that, unless you decide to use existing locations, you have to invent stuff. For Books of Loukas, I decided fairly early on that although the locations would bear more than a passing resemblance to places I have visited or which I know about, I would not, except in the broadest geographical sense, use real places. Instead I would invent places, although I wanted them to be

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Anatomy of a Belem Knight Novelette cover

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I thought I would share my thought process behind the working cover for a novelette that I (Belem, not that staid and more conventional Rupert guy) wrote over the Christmas period. Synopsis:  Nikki is invited to a very different type of Christmas party where she and her friend Carole, among other people, will be the Christmas gifts, to be presented to other party guests for their delectation and delight. The photo:   I purchased this from

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Revising your book after publication

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I was involved in a brief discussion this morning about whether one should revise an ebook after publication. My answer was:  Of course. One of the supposed massive advantages of a digital publication medium is that you can update ebooks. At least one ebook that I purchased some time ago, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur by Guy Kawasaki, was updated a few years after its initial publication. I was notified by Amazon that the book had been

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