Having taken three days off from my day-job to attend the convention, I went back to work feeling a bit out of place. For four days I was a “professional writer”, whose only duty was to read, write, sign things, …
NaNoWriMo: Half-Way Through
I’ve completed NaNoWriMo four times. Last year I even reached 80,000 words of half-decent story in 27 days. You’d think that might mean I’ve learnt a lot about writing and word counts, particularly something more than “it’s good to write …
WFC13 – A Round-Up
Because I’m away this weekend, and I’m still writing up all of my experiences from WFC, but I want to share more about the convention, I figured a little round-up might be useful. I spent a lot of time trying …
The World Fantasy Convention 2013 – Diary Entries
This year I attended my first writing convention: World Fantasy Con 2013. As a “newbie” attendee, I did feel the communications prior to the event were unclear and not always friendly. However, over the five days, I experienced readings, talks …
WorldFantasyCon: A Brief Update
It’s Monday afternoon, and I’m sat in my tip of a room enjoying a green tea and some pretty music. The last few days have been… exhilarating, inspiring, shattering and hilarious. Thursday I’ll be posting my full photo diary of …
October
I really enjoy reading other people’s round-ups of their months. Both Katie and Ellie do this on a regular basis, and I’d like to get into the habit of a monthly update again. So here I am. October has been …