Using CampNaNoWriMo as motivation certainly was a good idea. Despite some fallow days when I didn’t manage anything on the edit, I exceeded my initial goal (20 hours editing = 20,000 words on Camp) by day 12, and upped it … Continue reading →
CampNaNoWriMo is well underway now, and although I’ve had some days of total distraction where absolutely nothing got done, I’ve more or less been able to stick to a pattern of working every other day. So far, I’ve almost met … Continue reading →
It’s that time again as April commences – CampNaNoWriMo. I’ve joined a cabin with a couple of other writers I know, with the intent of really getting down to the edit. I’ve done a bit more in the past week; … Continue reading →
Well, not such good progress the past couple of weeks: sat down at the machine a few times, then ended up doing other stuff rather than the edit. Especially as there were a few IT issues. So I only managed … Continue reading →
So … at last I re-embarked on the edit after the vast number of distractions in the past two months. Went over the first four chapters again with some more nitpicking things recommended this time on SFF Chronicles, such as … Continue reading →
OK, so I finally managed to upgrade this main site. Had some issues (as I knew I would because my other sites don’t have blogs), but I managed to resolve them all or found acceptable workrounds, apart from one that … Continue reading →
You know the old cliche about the swan? All serene on the surface and peddling away like mad beneath? It’s been a bit like that this week, what with the distraction of Goodreads, Facebook and other forum posting. But … Continue reading →
Over the last few years, authors have been bombarded with the ‘advice’ that they must have an author platform, consisting of a blog, Facebook account, Twitter account and quite often accounts on other sites such as Goodreads. The corresponding moan … Continue reading →
… or something. Despite best intentions, I have not managed to blog for nearly six months (groan) after two posts in July, one of which represented a lot of research into book covers that I thought people would find useful, … Continue reading →
Well, another length gap from my last blog, but I have at least been doing ‘stuff’. My separate blog post on cover design for self published books has been in preparation for weeks, and I finally published that today. The main … Continue reading →