This is a book that tackles everything from keeping healthy and avoiding aches, miseries and both body and brain fatigue after sitting for hours at a computer to organising your time and space and investigating 'different' ways to improve your writing. The author suggests that you first study yourself in detail, not only to boost your self-confidence, but also to teach you how to look at characters in greater detail and see beyond their appearance to what makes them tick, why people like or dislike them and how they talk and behave.

The author is not short of ideas. She suggests using Tarot cards, word webs, runes, astrology, ancient Chinese systems and even dominoes. There are so many tips not usually found in a how-to write book and Cathy covers every aspect of novel writing from the Beginning to the End, including Editing where she looks at what might need attention and how to be a critic.

Her aim in writing the book was to 'get you writing, keep you writing and enable you to enjoy your work to the full - to rediscover your love of words - and above all have fun.' If you are stuck, and need something different to get you going, this may be just what you need.