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Know the Why of your story

By day I’m a Digital Marketing Manager. By night, or whenever I have a spare moment, I’m a writer of science fiction and fantasy novels. Over the years the two sides to my coin have informed and improved each other in unexpected ways.

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By Simon Jones, 6 yearsFebruary 25, 2019 ago
Writing

How to quickly define your characters

I’ve been experimenting with a useful technique for quickly creating characters, borrowing a few tricks from roleplaying games. I started using this approach with The Mechanical Crown, as the book is crammed full of characters and I needed a way to immediately define their behaviour, speech pattern and attitudes. (more…)

By Simon Jones, 7 yearsMay 12, 2018 ago
Productivity

The importance of staying on target

I’m a big believer in Simon Sinek’s Start With Why notion. It posits that before you get to the how and the what, you really need to figure out the why. This applies to any endeavour, be it personal or professional and as an individual or a group. It’s what separates companies and organisations with Read more…

By Simon Jones, 7 yearsNovember 22, 2017 ago
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