Want to start writing, but don't know where to start? This short guide gives bite-size advice from a published writer on how to get your words flowing. It also points out common errors and give hints on how to avoid them.
Glasgow University and Faber Academy graduate, Colette Coen has eBooks of short stories called The Chocolate Refuge and Five a Day and her first novel All the Places I’ve Ever Been. She won the Waterstones Crime in the City competition in 2013 and was shortlisted for the Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. She has been a librarian and literacy lecturer, but now works in a supermarket to allow time and head-space for writing. She loves Muriel Spark, Margaret Atwood and INXS. She lives in Glasgow with her husband and three kids. Follow http://colettecoen.wordpress.com for regular posts of new fiction.