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NanoWriMo and Your Future Self

I’d like you to fast forward yourselves to the end of November. You, sweaty and stained as if you’ve just emerged from a coal mine, are stared at a pile of printed paper. You choke back some tears and wonder about having another coffee. You silently curse and praise NanoWrimo at the same time. You’re [...]

The First Paragraph

How do you start a book? I’ve been thinking a lot about this question since ninja agent/blogger Nathan Bransford began running his “The 3rd Sort-of-Annual Stupendously Ultimate First Paragraph Challenge”. I put in the first paragraph of my work in progress and forgot about it for a day or so. When I went back there [...]

The Big Things

I’m flat out writing (and sadly, doing some re writing) of my novel. It’s actually getting there, and as long as I keep my nose to the stone I’m going to make 50,000 words by the end of the month. The reason for the big rewrite (almost 10,000 words need to be changed) was a [...]

FAIL

It was not a great weekend. I got my first podcast done, and it sounded pretty good. I edited it, put a few extra bits and pieces and I was looking forward to sharing it with you all today.  It was not to be.  For whatever reason (I suspect human error) the podcast is so [...]

Fear and The Comma Fairy

I imagine the comma fairy as a tiny malevolent little gnome that sprinkles run on sentences into my work. I also imagine him starting small fires. The little sod. I’m especially guilty of long sentences when I’m trying to get a point across. The more complex the point, the more commas. When I first started [...]

Failure: Do it Right

I set myself a big goal for the weekend: Write 20,000 words by hook or by crook. I utterly failed. At 8,000 words my brain turned to jello and I crashed out on the sofa with a box set of DVD’s.   You heard me.   As a writer, you’re going to fail at your [...]

Gold

Normally I tell people, no matter how bad your writing is, keep going. It’ll get better. In rare instances, this advice may not be correct. The link above is to Awful Library Books, a superb blog about weeding out the very worst things to grace the shelves of library’s everywhere. Awesome.

New Book Review of Janet Evanovich’s How I Write is Up!

I just put up a review of Janet Evanovich’s writing book, How I Write (written with Ina Yalof), it can be found here ready to please you.

When you’re too busy

“I’m way to busy to write right now. I’ll do some more writing next week.” Yeah, right… I’ve said that to myself many times, and every time I’ve utterly failed to write anything in the alloted time. The strange thing about being busy is that it follows you around like a hungry hyena. If you’re [...]

A quick pimping

Okay, so the title sounds dirty but I got your attention. I wanted to give a mention to an excellent writing blog I found today while ostensibly doing ‘research’ (reading twitter) by the name of Writer’s Remorse. Chock full of interesting articles and useful links, I fully recommend it. I got 1800 words out tonight. [...]

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