.When I am working, there are times when I am easily distracted. Sunbirds will do the trick, anytime. When they come and perch on the gingers outside my study and start chirping and sipping the nectar, the novel gets temporarily … Continue reading
~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
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
