Ten Minutes is All it Takes
Finally sat down for 10 minutes over a recent lunchtime and scribbled down a scene on a couple of sides of a shorthand notepad. Last night I typed that up with a sense of satisfaction. Despite not...
View ArticleRound 3 Goals
OK, it’s time to launch Round 3 of ROW80. I won’t beat myself up with recriminations about how little was achieved in Round 2, but will just state one simple goal: Progress towards and reach the...
View ArticleI’m Back!
NaNoWriMo 2013 Participant Well, that was a long while, but no excuses. Have actually done some work on the WIP since, several chapters in fact, although things ground to a halt a couple of months...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo is Working
NaNoWriMo 2013 Participant Yes, I know I’ve done it again but I have a very good reason for not posting anything on this blog – I have been writing every day on NaNo and am climbing the last uphill...
View ArticleI Won!
NaNoWriMo 2013 Winner badge Well, things have been hectic or I would’ve posted this sooner but after sometimes falling behind with my word count and then catching up, I finally passed the 50,000 word...
View ArticleResearch is Hard
Peasant Woman Planting Beets by Vincent van Gogh – Public Domain Well, it can be. I have made a list of questions I need answers to that relate to the terrain of the country and how this affects the...
View ArticleNothing to Report
Decomposing cow skull in desert – public domain Well, it’s embarrassing but the whole daunting mass of climate and agricultural research is still weighing me down and I haven’t been able to make any...
View ArticleEntering the Fields
Green Fields by Larisa Koshkina It’s been a toil, but I sat down today and made a push. After a lot of thought, I decided the best thing to do was edit chapter 2 where my protagonist is travelling to...
View ArticleMade a Goal at Last
Daffodils. Copyright author. Well, things have been on the slow side though I have been working on one of my goals for ROW80, so far not stated: Enter novel to Bridport Create Goodreads account and do...
View ArticleDifficult Year
Sad dog by George Hodan Well, not wanting to make excuses – I think the picture says it all – I’ll gloss over the unbelievable time lapse since my last post. The trouble is, life happens and so no...
View ArticleEditing Takes Forever
Courtesy of ClkerFreeVectorImages, Pixabay, public domain Well, another length gap from my last blog, but I have at least been doing ‘stuff’. My separate blog post on cover design for self published...
View ArticleBuilding an Author Platform
Over the last few years, authors have been bombarded with the ‘advice’ that they must have an author platform, consisting of a blog, Facebook account, Twitter account and quite often accounts on other...
View ArticleChipping Away at the Stone
So … at last I re-embarked on the edit after the vast number of distractions in the past two months. Went over the first four chapters again with some more nitpicking things recommended this time on...
View ArticleSlight Derailment
Train wreck at Montparnasse, 1895, public domain Well, not such good progress the past couple of weeks: sat down at the machine a few times, then ended up doing other stuff rather than the edit....
View ArticleCamping out under the Writerly Stars
It’s that time again as April commences – CampNaNoWriMo. I’ve joined a cabin with a couple of other writers I know, with the intent of really getting down to the edit. I’ve done a bit more in the...
View ArticleBack in the Saddle
Tinogasta by tpsdave on Pixabay, Public domain CampNaNoWriMo is well underway now, and although I’ve had some days of total distraction where absolutely nothing got done, I’ve more or less been able to...
View ArticleCampNaNoWriMo – Final Report
Unsplash, Pixabay, public domain Using CampNaNoWriMo as motivation certainly was a good idea. Despite some fallow days when I didn’t manage anything on the edit, I exceeded my initial goal (20 hours...
View ArticleLessons in Line Editing
This account of my writing progress has slipped for a while, mainly because I’ve been so busy writing and also learning how to create ebooks! The last time I blogged, I had just entered a couple of...
View ArticleLessons in Line Editing Part 2
staand, Pixabay, Public Domain Since my previous update, I’ve continued using the text-to-speech method of editing and I’m finding it more and more valuable. It has shown up three typos so far, but...
View ArticleCamping It Up
Or not as the case may be … I’ve joined a cabin for July CampNaNoWriMo and set myself a modest initial target as I did in April. Although I should exceed it, I don’t think I’ll be able to manage so...
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