Sarah Webb's Blog, page 2
August 8, 2011
Write Popular Fiction? Need An Agent? You Must Read This Who's Who of Popular Fiction Agents
Who is Marian Keyes's agent? Who looks after Cathy Kelly and Sheila O'Flanagan? Who helped Melissa Hill climb to the top? If you write popular fiction, live in Ireland and would like to get published, these are the agents to try first as they have a proven track record with Irish authors. Now, because they [...]
July 27, 2011
Rewrites, Don't You Just Love Them? Day 3
I'm on day three now of the first rewrite of The Shoestring Proposal (adult novel for 2012 – working title), and it was all going along nicely until I hit a major plot hiccup and had to start all over again. I'm trying to focus on the overall structure of the story this time but [...]
July 25, 2011
Rewriting (yes, again!) and Taking a Leap of Faith
I'm just back from holidays and about to start working on the first rewrite of The Shoestring Proposal (working title – sequel to The Shoestring Club which will be published in February 2012 – so for 2013, gulp!). After this rewrite it will go to my lovely agent, Peta for her notes. And once we [...]
June 28, 2011
The Joy of Rewriting
And So I Come to the Final Day I'm procrastinating. My book – The Shoestring Proposal (working title – The Shoestring Club is book 1, this is Shoestring book 2) – is one chapter away from completion. Yes, it's only the first draft and a fairly loose one at that. Half way through writing it [...]
June 27, 2011
The 21 Books I'm Taking On My Summer Holidays!
http://askamygreen.blogspot.com/ Link to the picture – for some reason it wouldn't work on this blog – apologies! I'll try again later. This is the pile of books I'm taking on my summer holidays, whittled down from a much larger selection. I've been collecting them for months and I can't wait to get stuck in. The [...]
June 21, 2011
Book Festivals and What They Mean to Writers
I spent a good chunk of last weekend at the Dalkey Book Festival. There was a lovely atmosphere – lots of multi-coloured bunting slung across the streets, face painting, music – a very happy, party feel to the village. I grew up in Dalkey, near the quarry, and it's a place very close to my [...]
June 13, 2011
Writing Despite Everything – Writing is hard, but not writing is even harder
(I wrote this last Friday.) I should be writing my new novel, The Shoestring Proposal right now. But I'm not feeling great, I'm low on energy – in a word I'm grumpy. I'm finding it hard to settle to anything and all I want to do is to go back to bed and sleep. But [...]
June 9, 2011
What's In a Name? The Importance of Character's Names
I was in Listowel last week for the Writers' Festival and I had a very interesting discussion with my popular fiction class about characters' names. Often new writers don't put enough thought or effort (or any thought or effort) into choosing names for their characters. Names are so important. Think how many hours/days/weeks people spend [...]
May 25, 2011
What Do You Wear to Work? Do You Have a Writing Uniform?
I was once asked this during a school visit. It made me laugh. But I told the girl, yes, I do! I probably shouldn't admit this to you guys because it sounds a little strange, but I have a writing uniform. On writing days I put on my uniform first thing in the morning – [...]
May 18, 2011
Are You Writing Fit? The Secrets of Writing Revealed
'What's that?' Charlie says. We're taking the short cut home from school, through the wood. It's dark in here and the mouldy, damp leaves smell like rotten meat. 'What's what?' I ask, stepping over a muddy patch and trying not to get my new white runners even filthier. Mum's going to have enough of a [...]
