Plot Weaver Mugs

Crossroads - fiction/non fiction.

Reward offered

Ian McEwan

"Tom's writing has been going really well! He's written over 200,000 words. Now he just needs to work out what order to put them in!"

"Don't write it!"

'Just time to dash out a short masterpiece...'

Meet the author who hastily quit his day job.

Aspiring author at the publishing house

"Where do you get your derivative ideas?"

"As your first novel, it starts out badly and just falls away!"

"Mona has 'Second Novel Paralysis...'"

'Yes! After eight months hard graft it's finished, now onto Chapter Two...'

"This term 'deadline'; is there an actual line involved?"

"Okay, I finished my novel. Now what?"

"No writers were harmed or mistreated in the preparation of this story."

"I like movies that resemble my life, so I don't feel like I'm wasting time watching a movie."

'I have a best selling novel on the tip of my tongue...'

It was my story. A murder mystery. A who-done-it-and-got-away-with-it-until-he-wrote-about-it.

Writers without borders.

"So start throwing together about 10 novels a week and bring them in on Wednesdays."

"There are those who write books to be read and other who write novels for bookshelves."

Kirsten Johnson

"I'm ready for summer vacation! A good book takes you where you've never been!"

'Is this your first book launch?'

'Man asleep in double bed with a pencil.'

Temporary and Permanent Writer's Block

Book publisher telling author about some changes needed.

Book publishing.

"The script is flimsy, the action scenes implausible and the plot would insult the intelligence of a three year old."

"I thought they introduced the witch a little late."

'Radiology confirms that, like many other teachers of English, you do have a book in you.'

'He's been working on 'Seven Days to Change Your Life' for 8 years and he's only reached Tuesday.'

Charles Dickens.

"I finally got my wife to read my manuscript. She said the main character was a sleazebag devoid of a moral compass. It's an autobiography."

"Someone to collect your works, dear."