It’s that time of year again and it’s time to start thinking of goals that I want to achieve in 2015. I loath to use the term resolutions but in effect even though I am calling them goals it is the same thing. So here is the basic list (in no particular order) of what…
I have posted quite a few times about how I procrastinate and in the writing magazines I often look at where other writers work, some in cafes, on the couch, in the garden some in offices I have tried a little of all of them with different results depending on situation. I have an office…
In my quest to be the best procrastinator, I jump between Fantasy and Sci-Fi. Although for the most part, I have now managed to limit myself to one project per genre. Rather than getting nothing done with either part of what I need to do, I can set up some planning so that I can…
It’s not really surprising but the government is preempting the release of Google Glass in the UK by banning people from wearing them. Not really surprising given how distracting it would be having images or anything playing across your vision while driving. I t would cause some crazy crashes sooner or later, I would have…
A while ago I started creating a universe full of races and alliances so that I could then create stories and novels all based in the same universe, this would allow me to introduce characters and civilisations in shorts or novels and then let them cross over. Something that I have seen in others writing…
Well, NaNoWriMo ended and I have officially failed at NaNo for the 5th year running. I had no time reason this year for the failure it is literally just hitting a wall due to not knowing where to take the story and not doing enough setup beforehand. I think the stream of conciousness writing isn’t…
I have finally joined the long tradition of writing on a laptop in a cafe, well a Costa. Something about sitting here writing just makes it feel good, wish I could get the motivation more often, I might actually have something finished that way. Maybe this is what I should be doing instead of trying…
I didn’t make any resolutions this year, and for good reason…… A couple of weeks in and I haven’t really done anything I wanted to have started this year. I kept my resolutions or “goals” to myself as I new with Uni approaching the end I will need to devote my time to this to…
I know where I sit, I have tried for many years of NaNo Pantsing. this is where you just sit and type, see where the story takes you. Although I found that this was not for me. I would start well and generally I always know how a story is going to end, but I…
It’s really annoying, I know when things are due to start and yet I am never ready (writing related) I have been talking about Camp Nano for a few weeks and yet it was the start yesterday and although I have a bare outline I don’t have an outline and I have brought my material…