“How much planning or plotting do you do before beginning the first draft?” – Question by Cheyenne Trumbo I think this is a question many writers ask of each other. In a […]
10am Sunday morning brought us a workshop led by Tom Pollock and Kate Elliot, focused on worldbuilding. Much like at WFC13, the worldbuilding panel was the one I wrote the […]
The final panel of the day, after a quick lunch, focused on the roles of female characters and their relationships. I recognised a writer from WFC13, who was appearing on the panel, and […]
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 […]
*The actual programme said “sex tricksters”, and thus this is how I shall forever refer to it. Third panel of day one: and one I don’t feel I need to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
You may be aware that alongside my daily 429 words of Planes Shifter, I’ve been planning a new novel, which I’m lovingly referring to online as TFG. All I’ll say […]
