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Twelve People You Should Be Following on Twitter

Hi everyone, I’m absolutely crazy busy today sorting out wedding stuff and (theoretically) writing. So instead of telling you my completely unfounded theories on writing, I thought I’d tell you who I look up to in the writing world and how to find them on Twitter. This is by no means a complete list and [...]

Andrew Update 2012

As some of you know I had a bit of crapsack 2011…but I have to say that 2012 has started off extremely well. I am yet to be eaten by a bear. Some consider this inevitable and I am glad to have been able to prove them wrong again. That said, no promises for February. [...]

The Writer’s Twelve Days Of Christmas

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me a big bottle of whiskey.  On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me… two unfinished novels and a big bottle of whiskey.  On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me… three fancy pens, two unfinished [...]

Irregular Penmonkey: An Interview With Chuck Wendig

Chuck Wendig is the proprietor or www.terribleminds.com, the writer of the excellent Irregular Creatures and also excellent Confessions Of A Freelance Penmonkey. His novel Double Dead is on its way in November. He’s also just welcomed a child into he world. Clearly Chuck is a busy man, but he took some time away from disposing [...]

The Earth Moved…again

So we’ve had two more big quakes, some more building damage and water and power are out. We are all OK here, I’ll send more updates when I can.

The Earth Moved

Some of you may know I live in a city called Christchurch in New Zealand. We just had a major earthquake, our second in six months. It has destroyed much of our city. Power and water are out for most of the city; I’m posting this from my phone. I was very lucky. I had [...]

Quick Writing Tip #2 Writing Fitness

Yes, I’m going to try and do these every day. Writing is like getting in/staying in shape. If you write today, writing tomorrow will be slightly easier, and it will also be slightly better. The longer you go without writing, the harder it will be to restart. Conversely, if you force yourself to write twelve [...]

Sacrifice

My current project is stuck on 21,000 words. It’s not like I have writer’s block, in fact that would be a blessing since I know how to deal with it. I’m coming up against the uglier, more devolved version of writer’s block. I wish I had a name for it, but since it falls somewhere [...]

Muh, or, what to do when you don’t want to do anything

Apathy. That’s the only word of this post I’ve typed in the last hour. I managed to hit an all time low on the motivation scale*. I have so very many things to do and I’m so overwhelmed by it all that I haven’t done anything. So, to get over it I’m trying something new; [...]

Review of 7th Son: Descent by J C Hutchins

Hi everyone, I have a new review up of J C Hutchin’s excellent book 7th Son: Descent. You can check out the full review right here.

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