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 …
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 …
Blending Stories
When I wrote Wings of Skell (now Planes Shifter) in January 2012, it was a story of a girl who, befriended by a bird of prey, poses as a falconer, enrols as an assassin and wants to get home to …
Beta Reading
“I can say with absolute certainty that you need someone to look over your work and give you blunt, constructive feedback. People need outside perspectives on their writing to show them the flaws they cannot see. With that in mind, a lot …
Editing: When to Stop
In January 2012, I began writing Planes Shifter. It took nine months to complete, and then a further two months to edit into a second draft. When I received the first two bits of feedback from my two beta readers, …