So, last week I was worried about my current project. Since then, I’ve been doing very little work on the novel except walking and thinking. I’m happy with the results – an hour’s walk a day with nothing else to think about throws up interesting results. What I’m really looking forward to is what a…

I’ve got about 30,000 words into a draft of a book and I’ve got a nasty feeling I’ve made things way too complicated. The book I finished up last year had three main characters and two major secondaries. The one I’m working on now has… more than that. Let me just count: A protagonist A…

Back when I was feeling a little healthier, I wrote a blog post on here about trying to write 500 words every day. I honestly can’t remember what I was writing at the time but it was either NIMN or THD. December has been an absolute disaster of a month – my chronic fatigue has…

In the new year, my mentor is going to check the changes we worked out together for my book. She’s going to check my submission materials – my agent letter and my synopsis. We’re going to work together to pull a list of agents together to submit to. I’m going to submit to those agents…

I’m plugging away at the current book. I’m 20,000 words in and should have Act 1 wrapped up sometime within the next 5,000 words or so. What I’m finding challenging is – this book has so many moving parts. There are six different groups of people, all of whom are stuck in the same situation,…

My meeting went as well as it possibly could have – I made two pages of notes in an a5 notepad. Ten individual changes across a 97,000 word book which resulted in about a thousand words being added to the document, and maybe 600 cut. For an author, that’s the equivilent of being thrown a…

I have a meeting with my mentor tomorrow about this book which I think is ready to go. Now, the one thing I always want out of meetings like this is for the person with The Knowledge to tell me that I’m a genius and they already have a contract for me and I’m never…

I have a short attention span. That being said, the writing course I was on has left me for the last few sessions in the ‘tweaking single words’ stage. Sometimes whole phrases, but basically very small stuff. They’re good tweaks, they’re worthwhile tweaks… but I’m not sure they’re important tweaks. The tutors did a checklist…

I have a short attention span. Once I spend a certain amount of time on a project, I get bored and want to move on. Thankfully I tend to only want to do this once I’ve got a project into a good state, otherwise I’d have the opening chapter of 50 novels sitting on my…

I spent all day in A&E today and am going back at 8am tomorrow so no blog entry today booo