Yeesh, don’t I ever give it a rest?
It seems not.
Well, in the style of all epilogues, I am going to revisit elements of my previous posts. Primarily, editing. Yeah, like I haven’t done that before. Read more…
Despite the minor hiccup I had last week, having to redo the final episode pretty much from scratch, I finally managed to finish this opus this week. And how do I feel? Am I overflowing with a sense of achievement? Satisfaction for having gotten this mammoth under control? Relief? Read more…
OK, this week I was really hoping to put this baby to bed. Bad news is, I couldn’t.
This does have a silver lining though, because it means I have something to write about in this post! Read more…
So this week I figured I’d talk about word counts. I know its one of the things that most writers won’t really think about in any great detail, but word counts are extremely important. If you write shorter fiction, and have considered submitting your work to any of the number of short story competitions that are run each year (or magazines, for that matter), then word counts become vitally important. Because short stories especially have strict word count limitations. Read more…
By cripes and jiminy, my novel is coming on slowly! This is fine in a way. Once completed it will be the first novel I have penned ’til the end. But it doesn’t half create some uncertainty. Read more…
OK, so this week I sucked at my own deadline. I didn’t even get ONE full episode done this week, let alone two! I DID manage to write a few scenes from throughout the series, and also to get my “new, revised” arc down and locked. Go me! Read more…
This week I’m pointing you in the direction of another site. Inspired by Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing, the Guardian newspaper, here in the UK has published an article called Ten rules for writing fiction. In the post are writing dos and don’ts from no less than 28 other authors! Read more…
OK, never, EVER do this. Seriously, if you haven’t looked at a piece of work in over a year, then you’d be better off just deleting it.
OK, well now that that advice has been readily ignored, allow me to explain. Read more…
‘How did we ever get this far? I don’t know.’
The Godfather
Many people have asked me how I came about to get this far with the writing. I love when people ask me that as if I’m polishing my Pulitzer Prize for Literature already. The fact is, I know that this is going to be a long arduous journey. I know that I won’t be published with the next month or even six months. Hell, it could be a year before I see any results Read more…
Okay, so your first draft is done. You have written your masterpiece. You’re aware that now begins the honing and chipping to get everything just so. But you’ve read it over and read it over again, and apart from a few tweaks it seems fine. But is it really? Read more…