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1. When I woke this morning, I genuinely didn’t have a clue what was to face to me today. Drawing back the curtains, I was faced with a blanket of whiteness. Snow? I know that they were kind of saying,…
Continue reading1. When I woke this morning, I genuinely didn’t have a clue what was to face to me today. Drawing back the curtains, I was faced with a blanket of whiteness. Snow? I know that they were kind of saying,…
Continue readingIn trying to figure out how I need chapter six to go, I have read through Part Two again – aurora_floyd I appologise! How could I force you to read such a disorganised mess. Don’t get me wrong, there is…
Continue reading1. Bit of a giggle today. The Observer had my stars for next year printed. What can I make of this then…? Gemini 21 May-20 Jun ‘Don’t Fence Me In’, a song written by a Gemini (Cole Porter), makes a…
Continue readingToday has been a day for hibernating. I find myself alternating between reading my stack of books that I got given earlier in the week, to having a brain wave and working on my novel. I’m struggling at the moment…
Continue readingI have completed the second draft of chapter four of Blood & Fire;. Or to put it another way, I have now revised 52 of 406 pages… 😉
Continue reading1. This morning, upon coming downstairs I found the little Icelandic warrior removed from the second shelf above the desk, and in the armchair. Upon replacing him to his shelf I discovered that my Nutcracker soldier was also missing, but…
Continue readingI am making changes, sometimes big, fundamental, changes to the work in progress, and I am sacrificing words. But I am also adding, improving, and building on the story and the characters. My wordcount and page count are increasing and…
Continue readingI’ve just discovered that I have inadvertently given Hanna Katla’s mother the same name as one of the alfar characters – Eyrún. And of course I can’t even get round it with a global Find&Replace to get me out of…
Continue readingI have now revised the first two chapters of Blood & Fire. Or to put it another way, the first 25 pages. I could say 6% – but which ever way I put it, it does sound like a pathetically…
Continue readingI have begun redrafting my novel, and my workspace looks something like this; all ink of green and red and blue; notes and crossings out…
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