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 just wrote a massive blog styled post and then when I tried to post it, something went wrong and I lost the whole thing….. The rage is threatening to take over, it is fast turning out to be a very frustrating day!
Susan Cooper – The Dark is Rising There are few books from my actual childhood that stand out. I’m not talking about late teens but when I was younger. I would equate these to the current generation talking about Harry potter. The first of these is The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper, this is…
So I went shopping today with the wife and 10 year old daughter…… I am not the best person to go shopping with I have the attention span of a child when they are walking round looking at clothes. The ten year old daughter is like the typical woman, picking up pair after pair of…
After the last couple of posts I have been trying to think on why I Procrastinate so much and it’s not because I don’t want to write, I want more than anything to see my books in the local Waterstones next to my favourite authors. To be able to leave work and write full time…
I got tired of the endless Procrastination and the debilitating self doubt so I have signed up with the Writers Bureau for the Comprehensive Writing Course, I know some people do not like that sort of course but when people are useless like me at getting in gear and need the kick up the butt…
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…
Well its results day for my kids, and i’m dissapointed again. I love my kids but I can’t sem to drill in how bad things are in the real world, they just do the bare minimum and then when they fail say things like, “I don’t know what I can do” What can I do…
I know what I have to do….. I know when I need to do it by….. and yet it is a day until the start of NaNo and although I have done significantly more planning than other years I still don’t think I have done enough, I wanted a fully planned out novel this time…
This is it, tomorrow night I am off to see Star Trek – Into Darkness, from the trailers it looks amazing, but then I am biased as I love Star TRek. Going to see it with my best friend, who also likes Star Trek but doesn’t really like the direction the last film took, his…
