Rewriting a first draft

Rewriting a first draft

So Nanowrimo. I’d won. I’d done it. The first in a series of stories was complete, well the first draft anyway. I immediately hit a problem. What do I do next? The forward momentum I had used to write like a mad man during November stopped. Without the...
A season disappears

A season disappears

So 4 months have passed between posts. That’s the entirety of fucking winter! Naturally, a lot of stuff has happened. Been some highs and some lows, some learning experiences and some fun times. Here’s a bit of an update. As I said at the end of my last...
Tis the season to be reading…

Tis the season to be reading…

It’s time I wrote something for the new year. But the thing is, what have I done so far? To catch up on my last post, I finished writing my book. On the 8th of December, I typed “the end”. It ended up being a tad over 166,000 words, not bad for 41 days of writing. I...
Time to post something

Time to post something

It’s 5:45 in the evening on a Tuesday. I’m drinking the last of a bottle of gin and tonic that Scott and I gave a decent nudge to last week. It’s kind of cold, the house is fairly dark, and I’m feeling a range of emotions over one really simple thing. Getting my...