The Ebb and Flow of Story
I’m writing again. If you’ve following the blog for a while, you’ll know I generally write between 90,000 and 150,000 words of new fiction each year. On the first of […]
Category Archives: Writer Life & Lessons
Conventions, events & general writing lessons
Writer’s Well-being 7: Physical Health
As a Mental Health Practitioner, I have been experimenting with well-being exercises that support my writing, and I want to open up discussions about writer’s well-being. Well-being is defined as […]
Energy and Anticipation
I began focusing on my wordcount in 2014, aiming for at least 100,000 new words of fiction written across the year. The aim of this was to keep my creative […]
Initial Beta Feedback and Style
Last week I sent over my current (finished last year) draft of The Felled Gods to a beta reader. I’d forgotten just how many passes I’ve actually taken, and was quite […]
Level-Up! Essence of Green :: December 2017 & Annual Review
“And the world keeps turning, sun keeps burning… We are the lost and found.” January – March The year began in a difficult fashion. We saw a dying relative in hospital, […]
NaNo17 :: The Myth of the Tiny Cactus
In November 2016, I became involved in the local NaNoWriMo community. I attended local write-ins, and joined a Discord server to chat with others in my timezone/area about how they […]
The NaNoWriMo Experience :: Reflections on November 2017
November is National Novel Writing Month. The aim is to write the first 50,000 words of new fiction, from scratch. There are allowable tweaks and rebellion versions, but this year, […]
NaNo17 :: Days 19 – 25
This is my eighth year taking part in National Novel Writing Month. If you missed the first eighteen days, Click Here for Part I, and Here for Part II. This […]
NaNo17 :: Days 11 – 18
This is my eighth year taking part in National Novel Writing Month. If you missed the first ten days, Click Here for Part I. This was week 2.5 of NaNoWriMo. […]
NaNo17 :: Days 1 – 10
This is my eighth year taking part in National Novel Writing Month. I began a whole new setting, character collection and plot idea. I always feel stunted in plotting until […]
