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 …
Happy Long Weekend! Chapter 5 is up :D
Here's the view from where I am now 🙂 I'm down in Bateman's Bay chilling out and have uploaded Chapter 5 which is now available here (or via the Statues of Angels menu item): Statues of Angels - Chapter 5 This chapter was only "finished" on Friday night before I left to play a gig …
Hrmmm continued
And sometimes it happens just like that. The part you were having trouble with seems to fix itself (though that is not really the case). As I said, you've got to write through / around your problems. And with the part I was having trouble with, I must have re-written it (1000 words at a …
Hrmmm
Quick blog post. I'm writing away and around for my Fifth chapter, and whilst I know what I need to say and where it's going, I've found you really need to know / have a fairly good idea of what your characters want, otherwise it's a right pain in the arse. I'm writing a guy …
