by David West | May 21, 2024 | News
I mentioned in my post Practice Makes Progress that I will be on a panel at the Dartmouth Book Festival. I will be on the historical fiction panel with Tim Pears, an award winning writer, who has had an amazingly diverse career. I’m one chapter into his book The...
by David West | May 19, 2024 | News
My last post was practice makes progress. Today’s is of a similar nature. Some goals seem unachievable, when viewed from a distance. Writing a book is a daunting task. But if you write five hundred words a day, let’s say four days a week, then in just under a year you...
by David West | May 16, 2024 | News
The proverb practice makes perfect has in my mind been superseded by practice makes progress, which the Strictly star dancer Katya Jones uses. It’s just more accurate. However much time I spend at the driving range, my golf is never going to be perfect, but it is...
by David West | May 10, 2024 | News
I mentioned in my last post on chess that this month’s talk in my writing circle was on sharing work. It started with a discussion on how nervous we felt about sharing our work. Most of our writers seemed very nervous about sharing work. Their reasons ranged from...
by David West | May 8, 2024 | News
When I’m not writing the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures, marketing, or attending to chores, I amuse myself in a number of ways. Golf, sailing, dancing, and walking are my active pursuits. Wordle and Sudoku are ways to limber up the mind, and I’ve also recently been...
