What is your creative style?

A bit of fun from Psychologies magazine: 'what is your creative style?' article.

I suppose these tests take the most common answer and give you a stock response ('mostly As' or whatever), but I could be wrong, perhaps it's more subtle than that!

But what I liked best is that it does hint at different ways of being creative, which could perhaps be labelled as ideas-focused, audience focused, process-focused and introspective.

Lower image: Self Portrait by Alexa Meade

Guardian '10 rules of writing fiction' by millions of authors :)

Another fine article - 'rules' of what to do or avoid, many of them light-hearted and witty...

The contributions come from some big-name writers like Margaret Atwood, Richard Ford and Roddy Doyle.  They obviously had a laugh writing it, but I for one will be clipping it to Evernote.

Great article

Have a look at this article by Savita Kalhan, entitled 'Ten things I wish I had known before writing a book'.  Here's an excerpt:

1. Join a writers group. Most full-time writers write in long periods of isolation, so it’s good to know other people in the same situation. It’s a great support network!
2. Research your publishers...

I'm sad to say I have done nearly none of the ten things, but I'm sure she's right - especially of you want the book to be a success.  For some of us, just actually writing it would be a good start ;)