The phrase ‘writing rules’ is pretty broad. Advice is welcomed. Directives are troublesome.

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Neil Gaiman has said: 'I make them up,' I tell them. 'Out of my head.'

Here are five alternatives to sitting down at the keyboard which will help the next time you do.

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If you don't know me, I should explain I am the master of self-sabotage.

If editors, agents and publishers tell us they don't want prologues, I'm not going to go down with this particular ship.

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Around 2016, something awful happened. I stopped reading. I hit on these five tips to pull yourself out of a reading slump.