by Chris Smith | Jul 15, 2016
How are you planning to find a literary agent for your first book? Indie authors might be smashing the publishing industry but bagging yourself a top agent can still make all the difference to your writing career. And that means you need to know to approach them, what...
by Chris Smith | May 28, 2016
Being creative makes us happy – that’s true – but not just because we just enjoy dreaming up new ideas and having flights of fancy. Research tells us that what we really love about creativity is mastering something that is important to us – stretching ourselves...
by Chris Smith | Mar 25, 2016
For the writer wanting to focus on their work rather than Twitter, there’s a plethora of internet-blocking software offering ‘distraction free writing’. But rather than becoming distracted by researching the best distraction-free apps, you need a strategy to make sure...
by Chris Smith | Jan 29, 2016
Psychologist and author of the bestselling book Flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, thinks that highly creative people aren’t like us. But he doesn’t buy into the idea of the creative genius either. People who are highly creative don’t have special minds, but they do have...
by Chris Smith | Jan 14, 2016
Creative types – especially writers – love a good walk. Charles Dickens and Virginia Woolf were avid city strollers whilst Wallace Stevens wrote his poetry walking to work: “I write best when I can concentrate and I do that best whilst walking,” he said....
