John Baker’s Blog

What phases are involved in the creation of a text?
I’ve tried many different ways of writing:
Jumping in without having planned anything.
Writing an outline from the beginning to the end before starting the actual text.
Writing an outline from the initial idea/premise and expanding it outwards (I think it’s called the snowflake technique) before starting the actual [...]

What phases are involved in the creation of a text?
It’s different for each book.
The trigger can be centered around a crime, a setting, a character, something I read in the paper or heard on the news. Something a friend told me. Many times - maybe even every time — the [...]

What phases are involved in the creation of a text?
Personally my own experience of writing a book is that it begins with a single inspiration: something I read, something I hear that my subconscious instantly recognises as a ‘potential’ story. For instance, an article I read about clutter clearing spawned the seed in [...]

What phases are involved in the creation of a text?
A moment of inspiration followed by a number of phases, of new perspectives on what the point of the book is and ideas which instigate editing and re-writes. Hard to talk about it in the abstract though, so I’ll look at my novel, Raven Black.
The [...]