See the updates on the first and second quarters for previous data. The Third Quarter in Statistics: Words Written: ~23,500 Overall Words Written: ~118,950 Pieces of WIP: …
September Update
September settled around us and now, October beckons. The month of movement has passed. At the beginning of the year I set myself four goals: track my daily wordcount, write a minimum of once a week, “sort out” Resilience, and …
Guest Post: The Write Chain Challenge
At the beginning of 2014, I signed up for the Write Chain Challenge. The idea is that you commit to a daily goal, and each day you meet that goal, you get another link in your chain. I’d never committed …
FC14 Panel: The Pen vs The Sword
Following the economics panel, I went to the pen versus the sword: a panel which included ‘demonstrations’ and a lot of discussion about how to choreograph fight scenes in novels. Panellists were: Marc Aplin, Fran Terminiello, Juliet E McKenna, Adrian Tchaikovsky …
Weekend WIP #7: Drafting New Stories
Yesterday I began working on The Felled Gods (TFG), the working title for an idea that has been brewing since April. It’s my experiment in planning, as I’ve made a story bible/binder template in Scrivener and let it brew for months rather …
FC14 Panel: But Does It Make Sense?
The first panel I attended was Saturday morning — a panel on economics, because I’ve never really tackled currency in my drafts, and because I’m interested in the implications of events on culture. So I sat down for the first panel, …