I found out recently that my great uncle David Nell wrote a book chronicling his time as a POW. My mum told me about it and showed me the copy of the book signed by him for her birthday. Given I would like to be a published writer I liked the fact that a member…
Sat down to do tonight’s writing and I am struggling to stay awake, but I was determined to get something down so I can try and keep up with this challenge. I am away Sunday/Monday so will also have to make sure I try and keep up with it then as well. Quite happy that…
It has been a long while coming but me and the wife are away in Blackpool for three days. We have been looking forward to this for a while. It’s getting colder but as long as it isn’t raining we should have a good time. It’s just nice to be away from the office (work…
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 an impressive collection of “how to” books and every time I am out and I see a new one I will invariably buy it. I flick through them and add it tot he shelf. As part of the drive to actually do something now I am going to work through them. Maybe this…
Short one as I want to do some writing before I turn in for the night. 9 Days in and I am a few thousand behind, I need to try and do a little more for the next few days and then at the weekend have a long sprint to bring myself back on track….
I was in a routine with posting but then I stopped putting the reminder on my Kanban board and so no posts were made…. interesting! I have been reading a book lately which is in favor of pantsing, it is called writing in the dark and it is around that theme. What the book is…
I’m doing it again, I had a conversation with a friend today about magic systems and had just about decided to restart my NaNo project Dragon Lords. Then I read an excerpt from an upcoming book from a favourite author, this made me pick up my NaNo book 13th Earth – Before the Dawn, reading…
Getting near the end of my week off and we have come to Blackpool for 2 days. Set off at 07:00 this morning and got into Blackpool for just after 9:10, not a bad drive, we went a completely different way but as it was almost all motorway travel it was an easier drive, but…