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 …
FC14 Panel: Gentleman Thieves, Loveable Pirates and Sex(y) Tricksters
*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 introduce. It was essentially “These people (see title); Why do …
2014 Update: The Third Quarter
See the updates on the first and second quarters for previous data. The Third Quarter in Statistics: Words Written: ~23,500 Overall Words Written: ~118,950 Pieces of WIP: …
September Update
September settled around us and now, October beckons. The month of movement has passed. At the beginning of the year I set myself four goals: track my daily wordcount, write a minimum of once a week, “sort out” Resilience, and …
Guest Post: The Write Chain Challenge
At the beginning of 2014, I signed up for the Write Chain Challenge. The idea is that you commit to a daily goal, and each day you meet that goal, you get another link in your chain. I’d never committed …
FC14 Panel: The Pen vs The Sword
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 were: Marc Aplin, Fran Terminiello, Juliet E McKenna, Adrian Tchaikovsky …