Thursday night, after 3 weeks ‘in the drawer’, I took Planes Shifter out and began to read through it – with a new ally: Track Changes. This is a tool I’ve avoided because it’s not particularly elegant, cuts your writing into …
Weekend WIP #2: Keeping Track of Projects
Many writers find ways to procrastinate from actual writing, and I’m certainly one of them. Finishing Average My most recent affliction is completing statistics about my projects; beginning with Chuck Wendig‘s Finishing Average. This is the number of finished novels, …
Patience in Projects
I spend a lot of my time watching comedy DVDS. A comedy show takes time to write. It is is tested out on friends and family, then a long string of tour dates to tweak the jokes and see what …
A Collection of Collisions: A Photo Journal
This week things are coming to meet – of the Sekrit Projects and fun days out — the pending decisions, applications, meetings and deadlines are all joining in the next two-to-three weeks, and the panic’s setting in. I’m behind on …
Blockages in your Writing
I don’t believe in writer’s block. Or muses. Well, at least not the kind which come to offer inspiration. In short, I don’t believe in the mystical excuses of writers. I don’t think there exists any ethereal form which blocks your …
Mid-May 14 :: Life Update
I’ve not posted at all in the last week; something incredibly rare for this blog. I also don’t have any particular explanation. Yes, there have been things going on in my life, but I usually manage to work around them. …