Happy Halloween, Samhain and Celtic New Year to those who celebrate those events! I’m at the World Fantasy Convention today, wearing the dress pictured. I will either be at the events timetabled here or in the bar, so if you want to …
World Fantasy Convention 2013 – The Schedule
As stated back in this post, I’ve been hoping to share with you my planned attendance of various events at World Fantasy Convention 2013. Since a draft of the programme came out on Tuesday, I raced through it for some …
NaNoWriMo: A Two Month Experiment
This is my fifth attempt of writing 50,000 words of novel in 30 days. This year though, I’m using October and November as a two-month experiment into my writing process. It’s a mixture of easy and hard things, and sometimes …
Editing and Rewriting
Since attending the writer’s workshop at the beginning of the month, my head has been in over-drive. Time-scales, publishing options, lessons learnt, and the other participant’s views… And then I had a few comments about how much time I spend …
Thoughts from a Writing Workshop
At the beginning the month I attended a Novel in a Day workshop run by Victoria Connelly. I’d really recommend it, because despite owning about 25 “how to write books”, I still learned a lot. We did some practical exercises, …
NaNoWriMo: How I’ve Tailored the Challenge
November 1st, 2009. I sat down at my laptop at University and began typing the introductory words of my first ever novel. National Novel Writing Month has been part of my year ever since, and I like to think I’ve …