Author Archive: Kate Vane

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Why I Love to Be Alone

Why I Love to Be Alone

Do you like to be alone? I know it’s not true that all writers are introverts, that there are those who like to write in teams, or who do their writing in busy cafés or at the kitchen table, enjoying the background chatter of family life. For me, though, being alone is one of the […]

June 5, 2018 | By | Reply More
Past, Present, Never: Writing Time In Fiction

Past, Present, Never: Writing Time In Fiction

New authors are always advised to avoid complexity, to begin with a single narrator and a straightforward plot. I ignored that advice. In my first novel, there was a story in the present which related to events in the past, told in flashbacks. In my second I had three interconnected narratives. I think perhaps I […]

June 16, 2017 | By | 3 Replies More