Partway into October, I started planning my Nano project, but being as it’s me I got bogged down in world-building and plotting characters. The result was the start of Nano and I only had the Prologue, chapter 1, and how I wanted it to end. Because of this lack of planning and no proper outlining,…
It’s midnight and I am closing in on the end of another procrastination mission, I started to watch Californication as I started it previously but didn’t get too far. It has taken just over a week so burn through seven seasons of the show, got to say it is fantastic, but again has taken me…
A couple of months ago I wrote down a quote, just something that I was inspired from something I heard of TV. “You cannot withstand the storm” “I am the storm” Tasia to Corwin at the battle of Terminus. Then last night I just started writing and before I knew it I have two sides…
I have never really bothered with Camp NaNo, which is weird as you get the community/motivation of NaNo but you get to set your own goals, so even if you think 50k in November is too much you can do this one and choose the word count you want to achieve. I have half heartedly…
I may not be doing the NaNo now but I have come to one of the last meet ups. It feels strange to have a few people sat round a table and no one talking, I almost feel like I should be making conversation. But the idea of these meet ups is to write, with…
Some sad news in the world of writing and magazines. It’s not like people found out from any kind of announcement, I hadn’t seen an official announcement on the internet. The latest issue came out and in the editor’s message he broke the news that this magazine was the last and the publisher had decided…
It’s that time of the year again. Time for me to say I am preparing while making procrastination an art…. I mean time to get planning my Acomia Fantasy project. I need to flesh out some of the world-building as I have changed a few things and then minimally plot out the story. In the…
I was wondering today about the phone book, I dont know where it is in my house as it isnt something that we bother with anymore. We have the numbers we need in our phones and any other number can usually be found using the internet. I was reading an article on writing the other…
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…
I have been “learning” Linux for some time now, but to get myself more familiar I have installed it on a Laptop I have and another pc. One of my file servers has also been installed with the command line only version, this is to force me to learn the commands and then to remember…