Saturday, 12 September 2009
It’s a bit tricky trying to keep two blogs up to date, and the importing is causing problems (duplicate posts being the main one).
I won’t be updating this blog, but if you want to find out how I’m doing, head over to Writing, Dreams and Drops of Ink.
Hope to see you there! 
Monday, 10 August 2009
The How to Think Sideways course has been a great help in getting me from the start of a project to the finish, learning techniques that include how to come up with an idea on a deadline, how to discover the different genres your work will fit into (with some minor tweaking), how to surprise yourself, how to find the right ending, and how to revise. (more…)
Saturday, 1 August 2009
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death. ~Charles Sanders Peirce
It’s coming to that time of year again when I dust off my Belladonna persona and start thinking about the 20K novella for the GothNoWriMo challenge.
An official trailer for New Moon and a quote I found (while searching for a new one for my sig) coupled with an experience I had at work some months ago are mingling together in a tantalising fashion that has my muse sitting up wide-eyed, contemplating the possibilities…
Sunday, 19 July 2009
One of the chapters in Chapter after Chapter by Heather Sellers suggests that a writer limit her- or himself to no more than six guides. (A guide is either a how-to book on the craft of writing, or a book in the genre of the one you’re writing.)
Friday, 26 June 2009
YAY!!!! I have finished the first draft of my gothic novel Greenwood Manor!
I am THRILLED, OVER THE MOON, and ON A HIGH!!!!
One of the interesting things to happen while I was coming to the end of this novel was the way the characters from my NaNo novel kept turning up in my thoughts. Editing the NaNo novel, When Worlds Collide (working title) is my next project, but every now and again I’d find myself thinking about the characters and the plot.
I’ll be starting the edit in July so I have a couple of days just to relax and think about what I’m going to do.
ANOTHER FIRST DRAFT FINISHED! HURRAY!!!!
