“Anyone who procrastinates will find it difficult to get published. You have to work, every day, on improving your craft. Otherwise, you won’t improve” This quote was in Writing Magazine on October 19 by Vaseem Khan. It struck a chord with me as I am one of these people. I do the odd post on…
NaNoWriMo 2015 has started, 30 days to do 50k words. Here we go again 🙂 Going to do a few words then get up early to get a good start with it. I have spent some time outlining this year so I have direction throughout the whole story. Previously I have known where eI am…
it has finally happened…. I bought a new iPod a while ago and despite always taking the mick out of Apple I love how smooth the use is. So this week I got myself an iPad 4 and I just took the plunge and bought a MacBook Pro. I am also looking at getting an…
It’s the 3rd of August and so far I have watched Stargate for two nights and I find I am now watching Beverly Hills Cop! I need someone with a cattle prod standing behind me ready to zap me when I start procrastinating… So much to do and so much procrastination!
A friend of mine that I regularly talk to about writing has just finished his second book (1st was self published) in all of the time it has taken him to write these two books I have…. wait for it…. written less than one short story in the universe I have been busily planning. It…
Where do you do your creative thinking? I have an office and this is where I should be doing my work but I made the mistake of filling my “man cave” with stuff! When I am in here supposed to be working I end up watching TV or browsing or playing games. Occasionally I do…
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 know I am not currently published, but I plan to be. So it’s quite worrying to read all of the news articles talking about how some publishers and magazines are demanding all rights when writers submit work to them. As much as I want to be published if I was to see something like…
I’m not sure if I am just not like other writers but I have no thought to a message behind my writing. I just want to create an expansive series of books for others to enjoy. When I achieve this dream someone, somewhere will unearth the real message behind my writing. Whatever that is…..
