When do you call yourself a writer?
When reading Writing magazines and looking at online Writers forums, you come across this question quite often; I have found that the answer seems to always lie with the particular Writer. So I thought I would add my opinion into the mix. I have loved reading since I was a child, I used to devour…
26th June 2017 – Camp Nano Planning
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…
Indecision!
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…
Shattered Worlds
Although my love of writing covers both Sci-Fi and Fantasy I want to create a universe in which to write all of my Sci-Fi stories. I have started planning the races and the worlds and some of the history. I will update some of it here and hopefully some of the stories. I have called…
404 not found
I am behind on reading my magazines but just started on my .net ones. One of the small news items that I saw was really interesting, so I thought I would share it here. The idea is that children go missing all the time and making use of the digital age the guys at notfound…
My Writing life…
There is a big thing about imposter syndrome when it comes to writers, it’s not just something that beginners suffer from. I was watching a video from YouTuber Beard of Darkness the other day where he was interviewing Raymond E Feist (the legend) and even he said he still suffers from this when he sits…
Motivation
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…
“Have you tried turning it off and on again?”
While looking for something to write for the blog tonight I found a news article on the Register site, I was very happy 🙂 It seems they are bringing back the IT crowd back for one last episode, the show ran for 4 seasons from 06-10 and focused on the IT dept of a large…