the end of all worlds

The novel has shifted to a different dynamic with the end of chapter two and chapter three. Helen, Ben, and Hanna Katla are no longer alone in the wilds of Iceland with the threats and dangers that faces. They are…

I ended chapter two with ideas a-plenty and scenes unrolling ahead of me in my mind. For the most part these are still there, and I look forward to writing them, however for a while there, on finishing chapter two…

Took a break from chapter three tonight to watch the first three episodes of Jim Henson’s The Storyteller – just how good is that series? It’s incredible, breathtaking, inspiring. It makes you want to write, to tell stories, to be…

I’ve reached that point that I’ve been striving for. My characters are away from wilds and the freedom and are back in the *safety* of the city, chapter two is at a close. Its about ten pages shorter than the…

Hanna needn’t meet Hannah when the family go to their summer house up in the north. In going off to find Helen, Hanna has skipped on work, and is behind preparing for her gigs. She can’t go with the family….

I realised this simple truth as I drove down through the forest to gather together the week’s shopping. As Helen dallies with otherworldly powers and the forces of myths and legends, I think it’s inevitable that there are going to…

Are the scenes that come after the dramatic, the tumultuous, always some of the hardest to write? Somehow you have to claw your way back from the edge, and recapture some of the energy and passion that got you to…

Chapter two is drawing to it’s close. I’m not sure if I’m going to make the 19-20,000 words that I estimated for this stage of the novel, but the tension is I think mounting. I have just written a powerful…

Rivers of black snake down from the cliffs, cutting their paths through the sand, as the rain floods the valley. Inside the cave, Helen is oblivious to the weather, caught up in her spell, the elves and the trolls gathered…

It’s funny, after the decorating of today, I had my cold lamb and baked spud dinner and a glass of wine, and collapsed into the armchair and by 8.30 I was thinking I’m ready for bed. But I hoiked the…

Helen sits on an outcrop of rock overlooking the valley beyond, finishing her sandwich, and swigging mouthfuls of water from her bottle. Her brain absorbs the view through her eyes. Where the sun breaks through the heavy-grey layers of cloud,…

currently writing: chapter two (of six) current page: 118 today’s wordcount: 558 current total: 31,834

I’ve written something in the region of 300 words today, and plotted out what the next big event is going to be that resolves chapter two! ^__^ At the risk of copying what I’ve previously written in a comment to…

currently writing: chapter two (of six) current page: 116 saturday’s wordcount: 520 current total: 31,276 Am I keeping just ahead of you, siren_songs? >_<

I haven’t been writing as much as I would have hoped, but I have been writing, so… currently writing: chapter two (of six) current page: 114 this week’s wordcount: 729 current total: 30,756

currently writing: chapter two (of six) current page: 111 today’s wordcount: 461 current total: 30,027

currently writing: chapter two (of six) current page: 110 today’s wordcount: 469 current total: 29,566