“Whatever you say, say it with conviction” -Mark Twain It’s ok for your first draft to be crappy, I think I have taken this particular advice to heart… allot of my first drafts are terrible. But using the ethos of NaNoWriMo I use the first draft as just a way to get the story on…
Just a quick update, I am 50 pages into this book, and although it is of a genre that I don’t read I am finding it easier to get through than I thought I would. It’s quite a small book and so if it was Fantasy or Sci-Fi I would probably have finished it by…
“Motivation is a theoretical construct used to explain behaviour” I’m a big guy, I wasn’t always like this it started with getting with my wife and slowly crept up on me. I know the saying goes I woke up one day and I was fat, people say how can that happen. You must have seen…
So i’m sat here again just past 2am waiting for the bloody kids to let me know when it is ok to pick them up from the club….. I wonder how I ended up doing this all the time, when I was a kid I never had my dad picking me up all the time….
I have decided as I am a massive bookworm I would like to take on a new challenge. We are at Blackpool at the moment and while browsing I came across the below article. https://www.businessinsider.com/100-books-everyone-should-read-amazon-goodreads-2015-3?amp= now looking at this list there are some I have already read and a lot that is out of my…
When I think of my “writing” career and what I would like to achieve I despair. I have so many ideas and rather than take the time to get them done, I sit on this pc for hours on end and don’t seem to achieve anything. I have this blog, which sits here with a comment every month…
Since late September I have been planning for this years NaNo. For once I am actually managing to keep up the momentum, I have my plans for the NaNo novel underway and I am managing to keep posting on here, so for once I am hopeful. I am also going to try and Vlog my…
Some sad news in the world of writing and magazines. It’s not like people found out from any kind of announcement, I hadn’t seen an official announcement on the internet. The latest issue came out and in the editor’s message he broke the news that this magazine was the last and the publisher had decided…
Camp Nano planning….. Or lack of it…. This months project is Dragon Lords – Exile. I have a whiteboard next to me with a base outline for a 25k Novella that will cover some backstory for this years NaNo story. This is the plan, but if I don’t put in some time for planning I…
