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As you know I switch quite regularly between different POVs and plotlines, and I make use flashbacks in my novel Blood & Fire. I’ve just started looking at Part Two in my process of revising it, and I have a…
Continue readingThe subject line says it all. Draft two of chapter six is complete! Yes… 😉
Continue reading1. As long as I breath from the diaphram, and blow the notes confidently, my piccolo playing seems to be coming on quite well, and not too screaching and ear-piercing. That said it’s still loud and high, and really I…
Continue readingI’ve been getting some good critiques from CritiqueCircle. They are perhaps not coming in as numerously as they do to some people – and I still can’t fathom exactly what it is that leads some stories to get dramatically different…
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 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 readingApparently today is the most depressing day of the year. It’s true that my bank balance is looking a bit dipleeted, but not really any more so than usual at this time in a month. I had a good weekend,…
Continue reading1. Yes, dear readers Britain has once again been ravaged by storms. And yes it has been very bad in places (did anyone see the footage of that aeroplane trying to take off from Birmingham airport?), but like all of…
Continue readingToday has largely been about words for me, and I like words… 1. Critted (is that a word – probably not but it sounds better than Critiqued) three chapters of someone’s book on CritiqueCircle. I wonder how much critting you…
Continue readingMy story has been too complicated. Working through the reasons that Ódinn/Gyrdir/Gunnlaugr needs for the the story to work out, it actually is much simpler that you might think. What does Gunnlaugr want? He has been cast-out of his world…
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 readingWe went to the seaside today, down at Christchurch, and Ben had a ride on the train down through the estuary to the beach huts. Fleeing from the rain a couple of hours later, we came home to hibernate in…
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. The 100 hour fog finally lifted today, well mostly, leaving behind it a damp, cold day that lingered long, and heavy. Not to get downheartened though we took Barney for a good walk and blew those cobwebs away before…
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 readingEdit: To those answering ‘Crossover’ please clarify if it should be best targetted as Adult crossing down or Childrens’ crossing up…
Continue readingAnother good day today. Had a successful batch at improving chapter three of my novel, before heading into Oxford this afternoon for a play-meeting with Jane and Melissa. I say meeting, but in fact it was a Christmassy gathering with…
Continue readingMy parents have come visiting me this weekend – it’s my mum’s birthday tomorrow, and my concert too. They actually arrived earlier than expecting, and seeing as my meringues for Sunday were still in the oven at a ‘barely on’…
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