Tag Archives: imagination

Microfiction:  how my tiny writing got me back on track

Posted on September 5, 2022 by Susannah J. Bell

I seem to have lost the knack of writing microfiction.  It was never something I thought about.  Much.  Or ever, to be honest.  But then the pandemic hit and the first lockdown came along and throttled all my writing efforts … Continue reading →

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Microfiction

Posted on September 19, 2020 by Susannah J. Bell

My writing isn’t going well.  If I had to blame anything, then I’m going to have to say it was the pandemic.  I did try.  I started an Exodus Sequence story quite early in lockdown but it was a mess … Continue reading →

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Finding the right name for your main character

Posted on November 10, 2018 by Susannah J. Bell

One of the difficulties I had in That Difficult Novel was finding the right name for the protagonist.  When I first created the novel (many years before I actually began work on it), I really fancied calling her Ygraine.  But … Continue reading →

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To F or not to F

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Susannah J. Bell

Yesterday I picked up a Steven Pinker book called The Stuff of Thought which happened to be in the library where I was working.  Always keen to kill ten minutes or so by reading something interesting, I was hooked by … Continue reading →

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