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One of the reasons I want to be a writer is because there’s no books I like reading. I browsed the bookshop the other day and the jacket reviews turned me off everything a picked up. I’m not interested in any that use words in their description such as: tragedy; poignant; thriller; black; depressing; violent and so on. They’re all stereotypical scribblings that pull cliched strings.

Problem is… that seems to cover every serious novel ever written. I like a good story but why do writers think you can’t have a good story without those elements? I’m okay with intrigue and curiosity - you’ve got to give the reader something to wonder about, to keep them reading. Action is critical too to a novel but does it have to be so stereotyped?

I want to read stuff that is real but not depressing or heart wrenching or stressful.

Could not a good writer make any story interesting?

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Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, very generously shares with us his formula for writing funny cartoons

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On Wednesday last, when I had to do my weekly column for <a href=http://www.applematters.com target=_blank>Apple Matters</a>, I procrastinated badly on it. Suddenly found heaps of other “important” things to do.

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I’ve looked at a fair few of the creative writing applications available for the Mac, tried a few, but none of them grabbed me. Yet with Jer’s, it grabbed my attention as soon it opened the read me. I was reaching for my wallet before I’d even tried it! (You can’t pay yet though, it’s […]

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Made some good progress this week with my writing projects. Possibly spent a little too much time on less important things like tweaking the layout of this website.
Wrote a fair chunk of a chapter for the self help book and a some good posts on the blogs.
Some advice to anyone - READ to get […]

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I work up one day last week and realised I was writing. Not in my sleep, but doing lots of writing projects. My writing on Apple Matters was obviously having the side benefit of drawing me more into writing, giving me momentum. That and the seven-week-settle. I’ve always found it takes me seven weeks to […]

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