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Travelling to your story3 comments

abbspepper wrote 3 months ago: Bored, tired, irritable – perfect material for writers The whole process of travel – on public trans … more →

Tags: Writing Challenge, Industry Insights, Airports, Arthur Haley, Fiction, Hitchcock, murder, Mystery, Romance

"I'm not creative..."

abbspepper wrote 4 months ago: A woman I met in Escondido – a smart, clued-in, driven business woman – told me this, with convictio … more →

Tags: Writing Challenge, Workshop Dates, writer's problems, Best Sellers, Boris Becker, Creative Writing, Creativity, Escondido California, Fiction

The devil is very definitely in the detail2 comments

abbspepper wrote 4 months ago: Crime writers and gritty romance writers… have a look at this story from the BBC website today … more →

Tags: Writing Challenge, Chef, control freak, conviction, Crime, Crime Fiction, Dead Woman, death, Fiction

Got all your ideas for NaNoWriMo?8 comments

abbspepper wrote 6 months ago: Mists and mellow fruitfulness – it’s the season for NaNoWriMo It’s on the doorstep, howl … more →

Tags: Industry Insights, Depth and detail, Snips and snippets, Writing Challenge, Historical, Competitions, Authors, character, Creativity

Sex, sorcery, sewing and sleep1 comment

abbspepper wrote 10 months ago: Fascinating post about the way people used the night hours before artificial light became the norm. … more →

Tags: Depth and detail, Historical, Bedtime, Creative Writing, Darkness, Evan Filby, Fiction, First sleep, Historical Fiction

Lots of questions to be asked3 comments

abbspepper wrote 10 months ago: Husband of dead woman charged with delaying her burial. Very odd. No formal cause of death has been … more →

Tags: true crime, Crime Fiction, Crime, Dead Woman, husband charged, rausling, Cause of Death, Questions, crime writing

Topical bonus for crime writers

abbspepper wrote 10 months ago: Spending cuts could banjax the justice system in England & Wales, and give crime writers a field … more →

Tags: crime novel, Where Do You Get Your Ideas?, Fiction, writing, Crime Fiction, Crime, Forensic Science, Crime Writers, Justice

Sporting crime4 comments

abbspepper wrote 10 months ago: Olympic athletics 2008, Beijing National Stadium. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This morning there is ne … more →

Tags: Abbs Pepper, betting scandals, Cheating, Cricket, Crime, Crime Fiction, Dick Francis, doping, drugs

Blockbuster love story to be written

abbspepper wrote 10 months ago: A lifelong romance between a Yemeni shepherd boy and a Danish girl, this would make an extraordinary … more →

Tags: america, cross-cultural romance, Danish girl, elopement, Islam, lifelong-love, Liverpool, seafarer, True Love

Sugar, sugar

abbspepper wrote 10 months ago: English: Sugar cane harvest at Marburg Sugar Mill. Workers on the top of the wagons of sugar cane at … more →

Tags: Barbados, Boiling Point, Business, Fortune, Henry Tate, ideas for authors, Industry, Liverpool, Sugar

British Wimbledon champion

abbspepper wrote 10 months ago: Lottie Dodd, archer, tennis champion, golfer A story to write in time for next year’s Wimbledo … more →

Tags: Where Do You Get Your Ideas?, Wimbledon, wimbledon champion, Tennis, Golf, Archery, Lottie Dodd, Bebington

Fantastic true story - inspiration for yours?4 comments

abbspepper wrote 10 months ago: Deserted Flavel family house in Astoria, Oregon An amazing story in the Daily Astorian, local paper … more →

Tags: flavel family, Astoria Oregon, The Daily Astorian, oregon families, Mystery, true crime, crime novel, mystery novel, Horror


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