by Clare Flynn | Feb 6, 2015
I often get asked if I suffer from Writer’s Block and if so how I get over it? Disclaimer upfront! I don’t believe in Writer’s Block. I don’t think it exists as a condition. It’s no more than a euphemism for one of the following conditions – laziness,...
by Clare Flynn | May 29, 2013
The start point for my books is often a location. Sometimes just being in a beautiful or interesting place makes me want to write about it. Sometimes the place itself triggers the idea for a book or a character. Either way it’s a good excuse to go back there to...
by Clare Flynn | Mar 19, 2013
I’ve been trying to crack a plot problem and it’s been driving me round the bend. I can’t even decide if I want to simplify the story or make it more complex. I’ve been going round and round in circles (correction – in a vortex of doom)...
by Clare Flynn | Nov 3, 2012
This giant stuck together spreadsheet is hanging on the back of my office door! I was feeling overwhelmed by the size of the task facing me in doing some fairly major rewriting of my novel, A Greater World. I’d make some changes only to discover I’d...
by Clare Flynn | Mar 30, 2012
I’ve been indulging in a spot of daylight robbery today. I used to work for an innovation company that had a favourite mantra “Steal with glee” – the idea being that you should look for inspiration anywhere and everywhere and beg, borrow and...
