How To Plan A Novel :: Bullet Lists
Although the tent poles required to hold up a story may be similar for all of my tales, I plan differently when comparing short fiction to a full-length novel. Equally, […]
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FC14 Panel: Worldbuilding Workshop
10am Sunday morning brought us a workshop led by Tom Pollock and Kate Elliot, focused on worldbuilding. Much like at WFC13, the worldbuilding panel was the one I wrote the […]
FC14 Panel: She’s Not Heavy, She’s My Sister
The final panel of the day, after a quick lunch, focused on the roles of female characters and their relationships. I recognised a writer from WFC13, who was appearing on the panel, and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Processing a Visual Block
I mentioned in my last post that I’m in the midst of editing Planes Shifter. This is planned to be the second-to-last edit, because I’m aiming to submit to at […]
Knowing the Landscape
Last week, I sat on my bed writing some completely new scenes to Resilience. These are essentially first drafts, and yet I sat there with two reference books, google and […]
