I am surprised since I started this challenge at how I have stuck with it. I have missed a few days which is a pity but this is my own fault as I seem to be leaving the Blog posts until right before I go to bed. In these cases I have started doing something…
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…
I can be quite an opinionated person, for those of you that know me you are probably rolling your eyes now…. I was reading a news item in the November copy of Writing Magazine called Name Dropping. It was talking about Charles Dickens giving his characters strange last names and then talking about celebs calling…
I’m doing it again, I had a conversation with a friend today about magic systems and had just about decided to restart my NaNo project Dragon Lords. Then I read an excerpt from an upcoming book from a favourite author, this made me pick up my NaNo book 13th Earth – Before the Dawn, reading…
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…
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…
So it’s nearly 1 in the morning and I have a busy day ahead, I had planed an early night because of this but instead I got drew into reading Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind. I have read the book several times and it is by far one of my favourite series (Sword of…
I like my life, I will just say that first, I have an awesome family and I have many different groups of friends, from those I grew up with to those I have met from work. But I suffer from a severe lack of motivation to do what I want or what I need. I…
I want to talk about psychology, don’t worry I am not going to go into some deep technical essay on the mind and how it works in this crazy world. I am more going to talk about my own mind and how frustrating it is. The enemy within, my procrastination! It’s a hard one to…