This is advising about getting motivated to sell your writing, no one is going to come to you to ask for it so as a writer you need to be proactive. I don’t have a store of writing to pull on to start doing this, but I am starting the #AStoryAMonth challenge this month so…
It’s almost time, close to the end of the month and I am away with the wife. My outline is incomplete and I still need to get the rest of the chapters ready. We get back Tuesday night although I won’t have much time then as we also have the cinema that night. This leaves…
To get the creative juices flowing again I am going to do another Blogging challenge. It is daft to have to do something like this just to get me Blogging every day, but I seem to keep to it when I am on a “challenge” I will try and make some of the subjects more…
NaNo is done, I have a couple of A4 printed versions of my book (13th Earth – Before the Dawn) so I can do some red penning and start to try and sort it out, I think I will set myself some goals and try to get it into a place where I can self…
I often remark to my grown up kids (18,19) at the lack of skills with computers in their generation, when I was their age I was playing around in DOS and writing silly little programs in basic, that is the kind of thing that got me into wanting to work with computers. If the PC…
I got some good news today, Jack Bauer is coming back in 2014 for another series of 24, although this time it seems Fox has purchased 12 episodes, still however covering a 24 hour period. It isn’t going to be the same but I am glad they came up with something other than a feature…
Each year the BFS holds a writing retreat at Gladstones Library and as it’s for a limited number you have to apply and then names are drawn out of a hat. I applied for last year’s retreat but did not manage to get a place. When I applied for this year I was so glad…
So I was getting quite prolific and was quite happy with the result, but it seems my inner Chimp won out… When I finished watching Boston Legal I had intended not watching any more TV as it is very distracting for me and I always end up binge watching TV shows and getting nothing done….
I know what I have to do….. I know when I need to do it by….. and yet it is a day until the start of NaNo and although I have done significantly more planning than other years I still don’t think I have done enough, I wanted a fully planned out novel this time…