Simon Says!

It's all change at Simon Says! After 526 posts (blimey, have I really written that much!) I shall no longer be posting here on Simon Says. But don't panic. You can't get rid of me that easily.
My new blog is already up and running, and is called The Business of Writing, tying in with my column in Writing Magazine (and also my new book, hint, hint)....

I’ve just come back from a week’s break in the Lake District, and now I’m raring to go (which is good, because I’ve lots to do). But it reminded me of a comment I heard in a podcast by author Joanna Penn, who spoke about Creative Equilibrium.
The idea behind it is a simple one: balance....

What’s writing got to do with geology? Well, it’s all to do with prioritisation and focus.
I did this as an exercise, last week, at one of the writers’ groups I go to, and it’s a great way of showing how important it is having your writing projects correctly prioritised....

You may remember that at the start of the year I posted about the upcoming changes at DACS and ALCS regarding the way we can claim secondary rights for any images used in our work.
For those who don’t know, when our work is published it becomes available for photocopying. The Copyright Licensing Agency collects money from various sources (organisations such as schools, universities, public sector organisations, etc), and they redistribute...