27th June 2017 – Family Time and Apes….
Its so hard to get kids to watch anything with you these days. War of the Planet of the Apes is due out in a week or so, to get ready me and the wife sat down to watch number 1 (Rise) and then as we were in the mood number 2 (Dawn) The 13…
Cheating!!!
Ok, so I have been busy tonight and only just managed to get on, I know that technically I have missed a day, but as I haven’t been to bed yet I am not going to class this as a miss. As long as I still post later on today 🙂 Started on the addiction…
Why can’t I plan properly?
It’s really annoying, I know when things are due to start and yet I am never ready (writing related) I have been talking about Camp Nano for a few weeks and yet it was the start yesterday and although I have a bare outline I don’t have an outline and I have brought my material…
“Have you tried turning it off and on again?”
While looking for something to write for the blog tonight I found a news article on the Register site, I was very happy 🙂 It seems they are bringing back the IT crowd back for one last episode, the show ran for 4 seasons from 06-10 and focused on the IT dept of a large…
NaNo prep time
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…
20th June 2017 – Writers Workout – Pound it out
“Whatever you say, say it with conviction” -Mark Twain It’s ok for your first draft to be crappy, I think I have taken this particular advice to heart… allot of my first drafts are terrible. But using the ethos of NaNoWriMo I use the first draft as just a way to get the story on…
General Update
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…
Stephen King – On Writing
I am in the middle of reading this book, I have quite a few books on how to write but this one I’m loving. It seems weird to be reading it, he start by saying that we are communicating through time. He is a literary genius and when reading this book it actually does feel like he…