NaNo update
Less than a week till NANo starts, I need to get cracking with my planning…. I have the start and finish, but I need to do the middle, allot to flush out. There is also the need for sub plots. … Busy busy
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J K Rowling
Just been reading about Mrs Rowling and the potter series….. really does make me want to get writing and try and make a go of this for real. It would be my dream to see my shattered world books in bookshops and libraries. Well nano 14 is not far off….
Posh cafes
I miss the good old days when there was a local cafe that you could go in and get normal English food, for a reasonable price. Today these cafes like to think they are something they are not. The town I live in isn’t that big and yet it has a rediculus amount of charity…
Procrastination and Social Networking
I would love to use a tool to monitor the time I waste looking through social networking websites, Facebook or twitter. I can sit at my machine and seem to do nothing but refresh the page and look at crap….. then I wonder why I get nothing done. I have tried quitting several times but…
Getting in the zone
I really would love to know why 11:30 seems to be the sweet spot for me. This is the time when i start looking at what i should be doing with writing…. not the entire night leading up to this point but the point where i should be thinking of going to bed. This is…
NaNoWriMo 2014
It’s getting to that time of the year again, I have started my prep for NaNoWriMo. This is a yearly challenge to write 50,000 word in 30 days, this will be the 5th year I have participated but hopefully the first year I complete it. Previously I have always been at Uni or otherwise too…
Mobile Blogging
Because I am so flakey with blogging I have decided that I will compose at least one blog a day on my mobile device. This will keep me writing and will force me to look at a topic to cover each day. Here’s to trying something new. This was from my anniversary weekend away with…
Think of the Children….
This rant is brought to you from the Writing Magazine (August 14) the article was called Think of the Children. It covers an author called Loraine Mace and the books she wrote starring Vlad the Inhaler, this is a YA fantasy book with vampires in it. Seems she was subject to the age old fools…
Favorite quote
Ocassionally I come across a good quote but my memory being what it is I often forgot. .. This one always stuck in my mind and was usually the signature on my tech posts. Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the…
The drawn-out dream
I was reading a writing article which talked about not ending your book with a cliché. The article then went on to list some of them. One of them struck a cord with me, this was the drawn out dream, meaning at the end of the book your protagonist wakes up and finds out the…