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 …
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 least one agent by July 1st. Following this draft, a …
Stages of a Novel
Depending on the novel or the author, the stages which each draft of a story must pass through changes. But I believe the common list goes something like this: 1. Idea / Plot 2. Write 3. Leave for a month (in …
February 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. February is over, and it’s time …