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…
Hi All, since winning Nano in November I bet you can guess how much writing I have done to maintain that awesome achievement…. yes, you are right, almost nothing :O Gods Pawn Since then I have done a few thousand words on the project and I am not going to hit my target of having…
“An assumed name used by a writer instead of their real name; a pen-name:” Oxford Dictionary I will start this by saying I understand why some writers feel the need to use a pen name, maybe they are are writing in a genre they are not usually known for. Or they want to see how well…
I have started to prioritise reading again in a bid to actually try and get through the massive amount of books I have. Each year I seem to buy significantly more than I read. I need to do something about that, so I have started reading a lot more. I was trying to finish what…
I often remark to my grown up kids (18,19) at the lack of skills with computers in their generation, when I was their age I was playing around in DOS and writing silly little programs in basic, that is the kind of thing that got me into wanting to work with computers. If the PC…
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 should be asleep…….. I have Uni in the morning and yet it is 2am I have spent my time re installing the OS on my New (old) HP 2710p This is a Laptop/Tablet. I love this thing, I got it as I do not like using the netbook so I am giving that to…
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…
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…
Just a quick update, I am 50 pages into this book, and although it is of a genre that I don’t read I am finding it easier to get through than I thought I would. It’s quite a small book and so if it was Fantasy or Sci-Fi I would probably have finished it by…
