Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Finishing the series: I’m sure I’ve written about this before, but given it’s the 1st May, and it’s Insecure Writers Support Group, and I’ve just got back from Camp NaNoWriMo, I thought I’d take it as my subject. I didn’t
Camp NaNoWriMo week 2 was going well… until I read the latest Adirondack Publishing advice on The Story Reading Ape – about Voice. As you know, I’m re-editing The Perihelix, especially the first ‘half’ which had, let’s call it, ‘deficiency
Camp NaNoWriMo – yes it’s back, and so am I. I finished the edit of Princelings 8 over the past few months and sent it to my editor a couple of days ago. So now I’m back to the elephant in
Yes, I finished camp and got back last week, but I was too busy with the Question of the Month and the Beach Reads Giveaway to update you then. As you know from my postcards, the target was to finish
Dear All Ah! The heat! Temperatures soared into the 90s at the start of the week, which I know is low for some of you, but for the UK, it’s roasting. The guinea pigs and I put a lot of
Dear All What a week! I finished Willoughby the Narrator on Monday. It was great, since on Sunday I when I finished writing, I realised what needed to happen to get to the end of the book, left myself a note
Dear all Well, I’ve been at Camp a week now, and it was a fun start, since I threw all my plans up in the air and started again. Well, I didn’t throw out what I’d done of Willoughby’s story,
Thursday sees the start of Camp NaNoWriMo again, and this year is the first time I’ve done two months of targeted writing, both the April and the July camps. November is not a writing time for me – it’s editing
The price of doing both Camp NaNoWriMo AND the A to Z Challenge in April was that my reading time disappeared completely and my email answering time was sadly neglected. In fact, I only dealt with urgent emails. When I
… in the A to Z April Challenge – that is the question! I’ve done the April Blogging from A to Z Challenge for the last four years. I was a minion to Damyanti the year before last – hard
Hi all I’ve finished my first read-through of The Perihelix and really enjoyed it. There weren’t as many problems as I thought, but I do feel it needs a punchier opening. I want to pay more attention to description, too,
Dear All By the time you get to read this card, Camp Nano will be over for another year. The first draft of Big Pete and the Swede’s first full-length adventure is done 🙂 I don’t think the pacing is
Dear All By the time you read this, I should be at the 75% mark if I am going to finish the book by the end of the month. I think I will, although at the start of the week,
Dear All The weather last weekend wasn’t conducive to spending much time out of doors, so I got on with the book, and made a huge amount of progress! It always amazes me how things you put in by accident
Dear all We had a wet weekend, so no campfire on Saturday night, but we enjoyed some nice days anyway and I got out to play sport on Wednesday and Thursday. One of our cabin-mates was taken ill and ended