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~If you are, then one of the avenues open to you is to seek professional help – which, of course, comes with a price tag. If you are debating where you need this kind of help then you could do … Continue reading
Tag Archives: writing process
At the end of The Aware, Blaze has a dog, a marsh dog with webbed feet. At the beginning of the second book of that trilogy, Gilfeather, the dog was still with her. Then, for a part of the story, … Continue reading
Last Friday was apparently “post a rejection letter” day, which started here with Shaun K.Green. Ok, so I’m rather late. I opened up a file, and here is an extract from the first one I came across, sent to my … Continue reading
Getting there, getting there. If I think of the target for the first draft as being 170,000 then the picometer looks like this which is even better: However, I am taking a bit of a break for a few days, … Continue reading
I am writing,writing,and writing… CHAPTER ONE The man beneath her was dead. His eyes stared upwards past her shoulder, sightless, sad, the vividness of their blue already fading. For a while his blood had seeped from his wounded chest into … Continue reading
Book manuscript is submitted to UK and Oz publishers, awaiting the rejection or acceptance… so what’s next? Well, firstly, there’s the clean-up-house project. A month away in Australia in March-April, preceded by several months of frantic manuscript rearrangement and polishing, … Continue reading
Every writer dreads that question, because we know that if someone had to ask it, they don’t get the way a writer’s mind works. Our problem is never ideas – but the writing. We trip over ideas all the time. … Continue reading
Sometime tomorrow I will finish yet another rewrite of Rogue Rainlord (or whatever the final title is!). And this is absolutely the last draft.* *{Er, well, sort of the last – there’s still an editor’s suggestions to be incorporated (if … Continue reading
I had an email from someone I didn’t know the other day, saying he was up to chater (sic) 8 in his novel and, if I wanted to help him with any aspects of it, to plase (sic) let him … Continue reading
Remember this “before” pix, to the left? That was my new table that we didn’t know how to turn up the right way! Well here are the “after” pix. As I have said elsewhere, I can write just about anywhere. … Continue reading