6 Ways to reuse your story ideas

Ever wonder how that bestselling author has managed to churn out seventeen books in a single series, and still shows no signs of stopping? Think you may have a book in you? Think again – there may be more than two!

If you have a story idea that you believe is the next Harry Potter, why not use it more than once? This doesn’t mean selling the same story again and again in different markets, although having second and subsequent reprint rights to give away is a handy tool to increase your income. Neither does this mean “lifting” or plagiarising someone else’s ideas to use as your own. In fact, absolutely...

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Break into the parenting magazine market

You know you are a writer when, instead of wondering whether you're expecting a boy or a girl, you wonder which magazine you can sell your parenting stories to.

So with the novelty of becoming a new mum wearing off soon after the sixteenth time I threw up, I decided to think of other things to keep my mind off the contents of my stomach. Conversations with my husband often went astray:I: What about Elle?
Hubby: I like it, but maybe Audrey is better.
I: 'Myes. There's also Marie Claire.
Hubby: Er—
I: Actually, Cosmopolitan would be perfect!
Hubby: What kind of girl's name is Cosmopolitan?!...

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Returning to work - How to cope with a new world after a hiatus

‘I’m having a baby!’ I announced at work.

After the initial wave of congratulations had subsided, conversation turned to the inevitable question. ‘Are you planning to return to work?’ asked my colleagues, some with amusement, others in tones more anxious. ‘I don’t really know at this point,’ was my truthful answer. What I did know was that it was going to be an important, serious and potential uncomfortable choice to make, and one that could be life-changing.
 
A year later, as I neared the end of my maternity leave and the manic feeding-changing-sleeping frenzy settled into a regular and...

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Leader or bully?

This article was published without my knowledge, consent or compensation. 

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We’d all like our children to be leaders, to think they are leader-material. The race for leadership crops up in all walks of academic life, from class president to magazine editorial board. There are many qualities that make a leader and many more that make a great leader.

At the same time, none of us wants our child to be a bully. Yet academic life is the most common setting for bullying. Just as there is a thin line of distinction between confidence and arrogance, humility and subservience, genius and madness; there is just a thin line separating leadership from bullying. ‘Kids don’t suddenly...

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Spicing up your season(h)ing!

Devil’s Dung. Not exactly the most flattering epithet for something that is eaten with such relish in parts of the world. Stinking Gum? Not much better. Food Of The Gods. Ah, now that’s more like it.

My finger runs down the definition in the guide. Asafoetida i.e. Ferula assafoetida, family Apiaceae, it says, is a species of Ferula native to Iran. It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to two metres in height, with stout, hollow, somewhat succulent stems that are five to eight centimetres in diameter at the base of the plant. The leaves are thirty to forty centimetres long, tripinnate in...

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