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 …
Weekend WIP #1: TFG – Magic Systems
Over the past two months, I’ve been planning a novel, currently referred to as TFG, with a focus on birds, cats and seasons. As you do. When I began the planning of this idea in April, I decided to really plot …
Writing through Spilled Wine
My laptop is a few years old now, but it mostly works. Two of the USB ports don’t work, there’s a thin light line across one corner of the screen, I can’t use the “2” button on the number pad, …
Growing as a Writer: Trying Old Things
In the last 30 days, I’ve written 23,000 words. For a non-NaNo month, that’s pretty good going. I made a commitment, “just for a while” to write every day – like with NaNoWriMo, but on a smaller scale. I picked …
Skipping Scenes
This week has been manic. My role at day-job is shifting, and I’ve begun doing some of the new-style work which takes a bit of getting used to. This weekend I’m in Dorset, and tomorrow I’ve got an important meeting followed …
Story Structure Tools
Sometimes writers fall into trappings of their own enthusiasm (see also: madness). With this being something like my seventh major re-write of Planes Shifter, I’m trying not to make the same mistakes as my last draft. If I’m going to …