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NaNoWriMo Day 23: …and I’m spent.
Drum roll please. After 23 days of writing, keyboard bashing, and complete drivel writing, I crossed the line today. My novel albeit unfinished, is currently standing at 50,130 words. I did it. I...
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More NaNo and an Evil Nanny
Since I crossed the 50,000 word count mark last week, I haven’t had ‘much opportunity’ to write much more. Well no, OK that’s not strictly true I have had time to play Skyrim and the Star Wars : Old...
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NaNoWriMo – My Top Ten Tips
November is now firmly behind us, and for those of us who went through the pant-wetting hysteria and nail-destroying anxiety of NaNoWriMo, it’s a good time to reflect on what you have learned or...
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Novel Writing: Taming the First Draft
I have now finished the first draft of my novel. I started writing it on November the 1st 2011 as part of National Novel Writing Month and just under five months later, the first draft is finished. It...
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Lucky 7 Meme: Exhuming the WIP
Logo cheekily borrowed from Alisondeluca.blogspot.co.uk I’ve been memed! Can meme even be used as a verb? Well, I suppose if ‘party’ can be than so can meme. Anyway, I digress. Jo of...
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World Building with a Wiki
World building is a skill that needs a lot of practice and time. Creating an entire world or universe including its landscapes, language, religion, people, history, technology, culture, nature, food,...
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When a work in progress just isn’t fun
For those who don’t know, I’ve had a work in progress novel going for over a year now, and I have lost all enthusiasm for writing it. What was once a joyful wander through uncharted creative waters...
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A couple of days ago, I wrote this post (2012, a Critical Review of my Year) In which I looked back at my writing through the past year, worked out what I really needed to work on and what I think went...
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January 2013’s Writing Update
It has been near-as-dammit one month since I wrote my objectives for 2013, a relatively long list of thirty-four things that I had to achieve before the fireworks went off for 2014’s New Year. These...
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Backbenching the WIP and Writing Something New
There are many rules of being a writer, the most obvious being that you must of course be writing something to be a writer. Another rule fairly near the top of the list is that you must always finish...
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