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Merry Christmas :)
Happy insert-festival-of-choice-here! Hope y’all are looking forward to 2012. I promise I’ll write more. Really.
What I’m up to
I didn’t finish Nanowrimo, in case you’re wondering. I’ll still upload chapters of Winterlight, but it’ll be at a much lower rate. My web design business is taking off, and I’m up to my eyeballs in work. So that’s great, and I love being busy, but it cuts into my writing time. I’ve got so [...]
Sick as a dog
What the does that phrase even mean… I feel sick. I think I’ve managed to contract conjunctivitis or something because one of my eyes hurts quite a lot, and staring at a computer screen for hours is not good for that. So, I’m going to lie down and feel sorry for myself and have my [...]
Self-Publishing a Go Go
Yes, I’m still humming and hawing over this. Self-publishing versus mainstream, which should I choose? Could I get a book deal? Is it worth my while? Do I have the time and energy to handle all the levels of insanity of self-publishing? I don’t know, honestly. At one point, I’d have given anything to see [...]
NaNoWriMo
It’s that time of year again… National Novel Writing Month starts in November. Am I participating, I hear you ask? Am I ever. I always participate in some way. I work best when put under the most ridiculous deadlines on earth, and they don’t get much more extreme than 50,000 words in a month. My [...]
The creative process
A few days ago, I realised that I have to rewrite roughly a third of the Novel. Most of the middle section is flawed, to the point where I don’t know what else to do with it. Yeah, it’s irritating. It’s not enough to have written a book – the book is a product, and [...]
Inspiration
I seem to be posting a lot lately, go figure. Writers get ideas out of everywhere and nowhere. The sound of a car in the street in the evening. A news story. The smell of bread. In the course of things, we turn ideas into stories that may or may not be available to read, [...]
Another story up
I’ve added another story to my Writing page – something I wrote a while ago that started life as a comic script, and then I rewrote it as prose or whatever. I’ve broken it up into six easy to read parts with links in-between. I’ve realised that I seem to write a lot of steampunk [...]
Editing Hell
I am there right now. The demons all carry copies of Strunk’s Elements of Style, and they’re poking me with fountain pens. At this point, I have written something like five different variations on the opening of the Novel, and I still can’t seem to get it right. My latest effort was written at four [...]
Sketching repost
The last sketch of one of my characters in the Novel has gone mysteriously awry. I suspect the gremlins of WordPress ate it when I converted the blog over to the new site. Yeah, it’s kinda meh. I’m hardly Picasso, unfortunately. This is certainly not how I imagine her in my head, oh no. [...]
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