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 …
Plot-Seeking in Favourite Films
This week I began my novel re-write following the newly-fixed plot line [fingers crossed!] Taking a NaNoWriMo approach – just writing each scene as it comes, and not letting myself edit anything other than spelling mistakes and clear grammatical issues – I’ve been watching …
Milestone: One Year
It’s been a year since I started this website. I’ve already written about the past year; when I said farewell to 2013, and reflected about key lessons. So far in 2014, I’ve found flaws in Planes Shifter, began re-writing Resilience and …
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 …
Balancing Learning: Writing versus Studying Writing
Since 2009, I have started eight novels and two novellas. I have finished drafts of five of them. Three I will never look at again (not to edit or salvage, anyway — maybe to learn from them). In terms of major …
The Transmigration of Cora Riley :: A Review
As a fantasy writer, I keep an eye on other authors work, and try to get involved where I can. And this week, I’m talking about Ellie Di Julio‘s latest book — the first in a new series! I’m also particularly thrilled …