It's been a while since I've posted, and that's partly been because January has been very hectic, but also because January is a very hard month to feel the inspirational vibe! Post the party season, things take a while to get exciting again, and I've been a bit sluggish in terms of finding inspiration to… Continue reading Busy, busy, but some time for reflection…
Happy birthday, Matthew Carter!
January 15th, 2014 was a very special day. It was the day that a character walked into my head and refused to go away. So it seems only fitting that January 15th became his birthday. That character, of course, was Matthew Carter, Managing Director of a multinational cider producer, divorced father of a teenager and… Continue reading Happy birthday, Matthew Carter!
Prizes and positives…
Since I finished the last round of edits on Far From the Tree, I've been entering the odd few thousand words of it, usually the the first three chapters, into writing competitions to see how it gets on. In fact, it was the feedback from the Florida Romance Writers' Association back in November that made me realise… Continue reading Prizes and positives…
Pestilence and the picturesque.
Well, OK, so perhaps pestilence is a bit of an exaggeration, but I did have to take a day off school today because I was at the infectious stage of impetigo, which is a bit inconvenient. For those not in the know, impetigo is a highly contagious bacterial skin infection that causes lesions and scabs,… Continue reading Pestilence and the picturesque.
The end of Nano…and the beginning of something.
So it seems only fair to write a post, post NaNoWriMo. And although I didn't quite make the word count, slipping in at a sniff under 40,000 words as of the last night, I'm not disappointed. Having spent seven months getting to what was, at the end of the first draft, 160,000 words, I don't… Continue reading The end of Nano…and the beginning of something.
Week 3: A Nano Tragi-comedy
Although I'm still banging on this week with Nano, as with so much that is planned, things have gone somewhat awry over the course of week 3. After the giddying highs of week 2 ("Yay! I have an actual scene, let's see what happens"), I've come to a bit of a standstill. This has been… Continue reading Week 3: A Nano Tragi-comedy
Nano week 2, headspace and anticipation.
I'm currently knee deep in NaNoWriMo (I should, technically, be waist deep by now, but life and lovely sociable things interceded over the weekend so the pace has slowed a bit!), and finding inspiration for scenes and moments in lots of places. I still don't have a title, though! The narrative has been crystallising a… Continue reading Nano week 2, headspace and anticipation.
Nano, Nano…
So, it's day one of NaNoWriMo 2014. I've been waiting for this day for what seems like ages! Already, the ideas are flowing, the thoughts are happening, my daughters are running riot, the house is a mess and Bertie the Weimaraner is learning that he will be ignored for quite a large proportion of the… Continue reading Nano, Nano…
Self-promotion, Self-doubt and Selling…
This week marked a slightly different phase in the journey of Far From the Tree. I finished the hard copy edit on Monday, and after inputting all of the changes into Scrivener, I was left with a draft of a little over 121,000 words, having managed to lose about 4,000 during the edit. I'm satisfied that this… Continue reading Self-promotion, Self-doubt and Selling…
Keep calm and be patient…
I've never been the patient type. I tend to be someone who knows what she wants, obsesses a bit, thinks a bit and then chases something until she's got it. Sometimes that works out (I met my husband using that kind of logic and we've been together twenty years next year!), and sometimes it results… Continue reading Keep calm and be patient…
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