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 …
2014 Update: The First Quarter
The First Quarter in Statistics: Words Written: ~29,000 Pieces of WIP: Short, Novella, Planes Shifter, Resilience. Days written: …
March Update: Goals
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 submit my manuscript to someone by July 1st. March is coming to an end, and …
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 …
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 …