National Novel Writing Month – Everyone is talking about it on Twitter and Facebook. It is November and now everyone is scrambling to make 1,667 words a day. Everyone, that is, except me. And why not me? Because I am making NaNoWriMo work for me rather than really participating in the event like some panickedContinue reading “NaNoWriMo GO!”
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Don’t get it right…
I used to have a bit of a problem. No, wait! Dn’t go. I promise this isn’t some sort of horrendous personal issue or pictures of my weird junk! I swear. No, my problem was I had to make sure every paragraph, every sentence, every damn word… was perfect. Editing was what other people didContinue reading “Don’t get it right…”
NaNoWriMo Cometh!
The Importance of Realistic Goals National Novel Writing Month – those words often send a chill down the spine of any writer who has tried the challenge before. Thirty one days. Fifty thousand words. Sounds doable. Having done one of these challenges before, though, and not working a traditional 9-5 job (more like a 8-6Continue reading “NaNoWriMo Cometh!”
‘Polishing ‘
I am currently editing a novella for older children at the moment – a horror story with a mysterious curse. I am not an expert in revising and editing (or Turd Polishing, I call it), but I do know how t read up on it and apply what I have researched. The first useful pieceContinue reading “‘Polishing ‘”
5 Games from Fantasy Stories
Pages Below the Vaulted Sky asks an interesting question: Where are the sports in our fondest fantasy stories? It took me a while, and some prompting from others to compile a list of 9 games or recreations played in books I had read… So the following list does draw on a diverse array of fantasyContinue reading “5 Games from Fantasy Stories”
Beaten by Robert Jordan
I have been working on my own fantasy tale now for a little while and I’m coming to some really fun and interesting parts with some female cast members. In my setting, women -especially lascivious women – are better at magic. For various reasons, the gods like women who are looser with their morals inContinue reading “Beaten by Robert Jordan”
Accept that there will be good writing days and bad writing days
I’ve been looking through writing advice for years now. One of the pieces of advice I recently read struck a cord with me what with my current difficulties of fitting writing into my busy work life. Even GRRM has good and bad writing days it seems. It makes you think, too, that maybe all ourContinue reading “Accept that there will be good writing days and bad writing days”
I’m not dead!
“Pardon me for living, I’m sure. ” No one gets pardoned for living.” Mort, 1987 – Terry Pratchet I’m not dead. I promise. And I’m not undead either! I have just been so very busy with life. I went back to work as a Primary School teacher and had some slack to pick up whichContinue reading “I’m not dead!”
The Last Dragon
Dragons have always captivated me. From an early age, I was enamoured with them to the extent that they decorated the walls of my bedroom. In my tireless quest for entertainment, I discovered something on Youtube that I wanted to share with you all – the pseudo-science of how dragons might once have actually beenContinue reading “The Last Dragon”
The Origin of: Orcs
They wage war across Middle Earth, servants of Sauron; they build alliances with demons, then shirk them to build a political dominion over the World of Warcraft; they serve deities and try to remember their heritage in Skyrim; they haunt the mountains and wild places, fighting among themselves until the day comes that a leaderContinue reading “The Origin of: Orcs”
Imagine Erratically 