This weekend the anthology Twice Upon A Time launched, including my re-telling of the Welsh myth of Taliesin’s birth. Fairytales don’t always happen once upon a time. Fables don’t always have a happy ending. Sometimes the stories we love are …
NaNoWriMo: WordCount Goals
November is fast approaching. I don’t understand why people say that; November stays still, doesn’t it? This means it’s nearly time for National Novel Writing Month (shortened to NaNoWriMo). What’s NaNoWriMo? On November 1 each year, over 300,000 participants begin working towards the …
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 …
Weekend WIP #6: Switching Projects
As I mentioned last week, I’ve put Planes Shifter on hold, and picked up Kindling instead. Kindling (KFTF for acronym purposes, since K is a bit short) was my NaNoWriMo project last November; mostly because I wanted to write an urban fantasy. When …
On Not Being Ready (to Fix my Broken Book)
I began writing Planes Shifter (originally named Wings of Skell) in January of 2012.
It's now August 2014, and as of today, I think I'm officially putting it in the drawer.
Weekend WIP #5: Plotting Meets Setting
Today’s my mum’s birthday (hi, mum) and so I’ve been at my parent’s house this weekend. We went to London yesterday to celebrate, with dad and O.H. Since O.H. was coming over to join us for the trip, he also brought me…. …