NaNo failing
Well for all my planning it’s happening again. A mix of time to get the writing done and lack of planning. The first three chapters went quite well, but then I hit a wall and just didn’t know how to move the story forward. I have been stuck at this for days. As a result…
Procrastination!
I am the master of procrastination, or should I say it is the master of me š I am in my final year of Uni and work is piling up rapidly, mainly because I sit on the computer night after night and don’t achieve anything. I already decided to lay my writing to one side…
Writer’s meetup and Camp NaNo
It’s that time again and although I had said I was going to plan for this I did my usual and didn’t plan the time to plan (see what I did there) and so when the 1st came around I was already deciding not to do it. I made up excuses to myself about looking…
20th June 2017 – Writers Workout – Pound it out
“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…
Vatta’s War – SF Series I have just finished
Book 5, Victory Conditions, Elizabeth Moon Warning Spoilers aheadā¦ you have been warned! Vattaās War is a military SF series that is comprised of 5 books. This one being the last. I will be the first to admit that I am easy to please when it comes to films or books. Its not often I…
Statement of purpose
As part of my writing journey I have finally started to work through one of the “how to” books I have owned for a long time. One of the things the author says is a good thing to do is to come up with a statement of purpose, something to inspire me to carry on,…
Assignment 1
Finish reading the first book and have started doing Assignment 1, Now, why do I want to be a writer?