It’s December first. November is done. National Novel Writing Month is over. Twas brillig, and the slythy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe…. (That’s been in my head a lot this month, despite not having anything to do with …
Career Choice: Writer
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 …
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 …
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 …