So I'm late on my deadline again. But HEY it's ok this time. I think I've finally found my mojo again and it's coming together. Presently I've got almost 3.5k polished words. There's a burn file with over 5k words in it. Which I'm happy about because I'm getting at least stuff down. And you …
What do I want to say?
In my writing I am constantly faced with the road block of: What do I want to say? Be it, where a character is going, the conversations they are having, the overarching narrative of a character's development, the themes of the novel, whilst I know generally what I want - the delving into the specifics …
So I’ve missed my deadline
That's right. I was supposed to release my 9th chapter yesterday. For the first time in 9 months I've missed it. For the last month I've had more time to myself than ever in my entire life, so it stands to reason I should get more writing done. The irony and unfortunate truth is that …
Owchies
The past month or so has been pretty tough. I've been busy recording drums for two of my bands. I broke my collarbone snowboarding and have been couch / bed ridden for two weeks now. But more importantly, or more associated with writing, I've had a tough time focussing and working out what I want …
Yo! Chapter 7 be done.
Super busy here at camp me. About to go to the snow, wooooo! For anyone who follows: apologies for the lack of posts, but hey, it is what it is. I will probably write something soon as I've been reading some awesome books and been pretty inspired. In any case, so an email notification goes …
Woah / Chapter 6!!!
Hopefully this ^ is somewhat how people will feel after reading the latest chapter of my novel. The readership has stayed reasonably steady for the past few months, so thank you everyone who has stuck with me!!! Chapter 6 is online and concludes the first act of my novel. It's into the meat of the …
Grammar. Punctuation. Shtuff.
Maybe you might remember how I said I knew grammar and punctuation to a reasonable extent? Well I don’t. Not. At. All. Let me clarify: I’ve known generally about grammar and punctuation, or thought I knew over the many years of technical writing and general shtuff. But! In the process of writing my novel, I’ve …
