This week I’ve had a slight lull in my writing — our new tenancy has begun, we’re setting dates for the official move in, and my job is changing form. I’ve taken most of my books to my parents house, sorted through …
A Target to Aim For: Importance of Goal-Setting
At the end of last year, I signed up to do the WriteChain challenge. The idea was to build up a “chain” of links — daily challenges — to get used to a consistent practise. In April, my winning streak …
Weekend WIP #3: Copy Editing (for Content)
Thursday night, after 3 weeks ‘in the drawer’, I took Planes Shifter out and began to read through it – with a new ally: Track Changes. This is a tool I’ve avoided because it’s not particularly elegant, cuts your writing into …
Re-writing :: Finding What Works
The re-write of Planes Shifter is going surprisingly well. I’ve written at least 429 words a day for 46 days in a row now. That’s 19,700 words. And in reality, as I often go over the minimum; I’ve written 32,522. – I …
Trusting the Flow
I’m re-writing the beginning of Planes Shifter from scratch. I’m checking and re-checking my five main sub-plots to ensure I don’t veer off too far from them this time. But this is almost like a new story without those extra plot-hole-fillers I’d added …
Hitting The Wall
At the weekend, I analysed my novel and found that I had 18 subplots: which explains why I’ve had to do so many editing “passes.” Even 250k epics don’t have 18 subplots in the first 100k – Which is why …