That’ll teach me to be more disciplined – I’ve been meaning to do some writing on Squidoo for a while. Finally started this week which means that again I’ve got nothing done on the WIP! This should have been an … Continue reading →
Darn, it’s time for another progress post to ROW80 and I haven’t managed to make any progress on my WIP. In my defence, maybe working flat out on the Amazon submission produced a mini burnout. I have added a goal … Continue reading →
The last few days I’ve been working on a submission to the Amazon Breakthrough Award novel competition. The format of the competition has changed this year, with publication by Amazon Publishing instead of Penguin, and five categories including Romance, Mystery/Thriller, … Continue reading →
Thanks to the technique of ‘cafe writing’ which I’ve posted separately about on this blog, I have managed to make a small amount of progress on the WIP. I can now see a new character more clearly – one that suddenly … Continue reading →
Well, back again after a gap – sorry about that, was hit by a seasonal virus. Despite that, managed a bit of writing on a tricky part of the WIP. Am now ready and raring to go on the ROW80 … Continue reading →
Well, it’s over. My first NaNoWriMo. Only managed just over 20,500 words, but that’s a lot more than I would have got done this month otherwise and showed it was possible to write more regularly. Need to go back over … Continue reading →
Day 20 and I’m not on track for the 50K word count, but I’ve at least done 8,800 or so words that probably wouldn’t have been written this month otherwise, given the things life has thrown my way. So I’m … Continue reading →
Have started NaNo and as I might have expected, life has been intervening. Have only managed to get a bit over 5,000 words done. Still, mustn’t beat myself up as even that is a victory at present. Despite the NaNo edict … Continue reading →
Well, I signed up tonight, a little late. Got sucked into looking at forums, of course. Am having a bit of a debate about what novel to work on because it doesn’t seem I can carry on with the one … Continue reading →
Finally got to the end of the ‘Green Magic’ edit. Have a few formatting things to check on the final ‘Rian’ edit and a short story to re-jig, then can get back to the novel I wrote a big chunk … Continue reading →