At a recent meeting of our writers' group, Novelink (one of whom took part by email), we discussed the use of flashbacks and backstory in our work. We were talking about novels for which we had written the first, creative draft. These are my thoughts on the subject...

    This time last year, I had just started the first of what became 4 edits of my novel. I was anxious that I would miss errors in the text, but with Jan Fortune's help, I completed the editing satisfactorily. Further along this writing adventure, I am...

While visiting Dresden two years ago, I was impressed by one particular public sculpture to women workers. It was commissioned by the government in recognition of women who had cleared, stone by stone, the rubble that remained after the bombing during the Second World...

Rebecca Gethin is the author of What the Horses Heard published by Cinnamon Press in 2014. The novel is set in Britain and France during and after the 1st World War. It tells the story of 3 individuals against the back-drop of loss on an enormous scale. It's a...

I was fascinated when I first read about Flora Sandes, an English woman who became a soldier in the Serbian army during the First World War. She was 38 when the war began.It seems she had always wanted to be a boy, had wanted to fight when war was declared but had no...

I have been writing a second novel for about 4 years. This has coincided the final draft and editing of A Time for Peace. I hoped that when the first novel was published, I would have more time and energy to complete this new one. Sadly, not! The first draft was...