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 …
WFC2013 – Excitement Builds
This post has been sitting in my “drafts” section since the 17th of August. Despite some of the blogs around the web saying that they received the programming grid for WFC11/12 (i.e. the schedule of talks/events for the convention) a …
Writing Effectively: Top Ten Writing Tools
Most writers have “ideal” conditions for writing, and specific tools that they use to complete the work. I like music, green tea with jasmine, water and all my rings on. It just makes me feel comfortable typing. And since I’ve spent …
Blocks in Editing a Series
The Planes Series is my current work-in-progress. The important information about this series is that I began writing the first draft of the first book in January 2012. I finished it in October 2012. It’s now September 2013, and although …
Brief Update ~ End-of-August
I haven’t done a proper update since May and I’ve been making some steady progress, so here’s another list-of-things-i’ve-done. In my previous posts, I’ve mentioned that I had this week as a deadline for sending my novel off to an …
Motivation: When It’s All On You
At work, I have deadlines, specific outcomes to achieve and timescales to follow. When writing a novel, this isn’t often the case. So we writers need to set ourselves deadlines instead. But if you’re anything like me, a self-set deadline …