Mo Fanning's Blog, page 13

16 ways for writers to create a rounded character

A 16-point character creation checklist. Not knowing enough about the characters in your story is the biggest cause of writer's block.

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Covid lockdown madness – recording history

In the (hopefully) near future, I’ll look back on this time and tell myself lockdown wasn’t so bad. I just want to be sure I remember it was

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Planner or pantser – what sort of writer are you?

Do you plan your writing or 'fly by the seat of your pants'? Which is right and why does a mix of these two approaches lead to success?

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Alcohol and me: An uneasy mix

It’s tough not drinking in a society where alcohol rules. Especially during lockdown. Every Friday Zoom meeting ends with someone saying how much they can’t wait to pour a gin and switch off.

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Lockdown: The year of doing nothing

I’ve lived through panic buying loo roll, tinned tomatoes and dried pasta, cut my own hair badly and refused to rattle saucepans as the NHS re-appropriated my rainbow.

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2020: That was the year that was

Mo Fanning looks back at 2020 - a year of reading, writing and anything but the bloody pandemic. Take a moment to join him.

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Christmas – Things can only get better … surely?

Remember 2019? The worst year ever. Putting politics to one side, it was one of those years that took away too many beloved famous faces. On 31 December 2019, many breathed a sigh of relief and looked forward to something better.

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Write what you know … and other myths exploded

I spent my Manchester years stumbling from one bar and bed to another. If I'd written only of familiar things, my debut novel would have told a very different story.

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Six ways for a writer to handle the Covid pandemic

I can’t be the only writer unsure how (or if) to deal with an unpredictable global pandemic. COVID-19 didn’t exist when I started work on my upcoming novel - and given a whole chunk of the action hangs off events at a seaside cafe, I could have done without it hitting.

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Writer’s block – yet another writer with yet another tip

Writer's block is painful. Everyone gets a form of it at some point, and most writers have ways of dealing with it. A frequent fix is to 'just write anything' until the feeling of being blocked passes.

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