It’s been months since I have posted on this blog, not that anyone reads it but the act of putting down some words is usually cathartic for me. I plan a lot and normally don’t get far but at least it gets me doing something. Lately, my main focus has been reading, I joined a…
So this is my first post of June 17, I was going to give myself a word count for each day but instead I think it is best at this point to just give myself a small goal and then build up. I am in the middle of my week off and for most of…
I forgot a day! Didn’t realise until earlier and now I am really annoyed with myself. Not quite sure where last night went, today has also flown by. My sons birthday so as well as doing birthday stuff for him we went to the cinema and for food. When I got back I found out…
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…
Yearly we go down to Norwich to visit our friend who lives there. It’s a nice weekend of chilling with mates and having a few drinks. It was just me and Pauyl travelling down this time, has been for the last few years. Our friends can be flakey. This year we went to the buffet…
I went to Costa a few days ago and took my notepad, I wasn’t planning on doing anything much but ended up hand writing a flash fiction story while there, the most I have done in a cafe before now was notes. I was quite happy with the result. Once home I typed it up…
When I was looking at the year ahead in December I was, as usual, up for planning and making grand goals that I would achieve in this new year, new me, new life. Blah blah blah. my goal was: Writing 2 Weekly Blog 12 Short Stories Xmas Story NaNo April/Nov Shattered Worlds Novel Fitness Gym…
Good Morning all In 1977 two momentous events took place, they were as follows : NASA launched the Voyager 1 spacecraft, and it is currently the man made object furthest from the Earth. At the moment it is in the “magnetic Highway” which is at the very edge of our solar system, it reached this…
I have been off work for a week and other than a small amount of planning and starting to think of the nano story I want to do this year I haven’t had time to do much else. Just decided to take the rest of this week off, this is for several reasons. Writing, some…
You know I miss going to a video shop, looking for something good then coming home to watch it. Just not the same sitting down and looking for ages at what’s on all of the 500 streaming services. Takes me back to when the kids were little and on a Friday night we would pop…