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I have recently registered with Critique Circle and uploaded my first story there. It’s up for critiquing on the 22 November as I still try and find my way around the site. It feels right to try out this critiquing…
Continue readingEncouraging enough though to get me away from frittering my time away, fiddling with making my websites conform to Accessibility rules and creating band posters, though? I hope so – another WriteWords review… I’ve finally managed to take a look…
Continue reading…but I did get a good review from someone net to WriteWords, even if they did think that T E SHEPHERD was a girl… 😉 I really like the way you frequently switch between different characters’ p.o.v.s, it kept my…
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…
Continue readingThe subject line to this post just about sums up my weekend. But it’s been better than that. I’ve not begun re-reading Blood & Fire yet, but I have made a start on a first ‘prologue’ chapter to Mr Tumnal….
Continue readingWhilst plucking up the courage to read Blood & Fire back from the beginning, I have started work on my new novel, the first ‘prologue’ chapter of which I’ve posted here – hot off the press so to speak. The…
Continue readingConceived in August 2001. 105,745 words; 385 pages; 250 days in the writing; 5 years in the making. Blood & Fire is finished. I’m pleased, and I’m bereft all at the same time. I want to go back and read…
Continue readingHanna steps closer to both of them, holding the alfar sword in both hands. She must kill one of them and be free, but which one? She breathes fast looking from wolf to god; from god to wolf; she lifts…
Continue readingWhich, in fitting Thomas style, is to be told in flashback as the final cataclismic events unfold. And then… I’ll be done.
Continue readingAnd so it came to pass: 103,142 words later I reach the final chapter, but is there still another death.
Continue readingAnother YouWriteOn review. With reviews like this it’s going to be hard for me to keep my spirits up… The very first line of this story seemed promising. But then I found the next three paragraphs written in a choppy…
Continue readingSlowly Erik draws his weapon and passes it across to Helen. She takes it, and pulls the blade back across her palm, slicing her skin, and watches as blood ebbs out. “Helen no!” Ben leaps forward and pulls the dagger…
Continue readingDespite my best efforts, and getting up at a reasonable time both on Saturday and Sunday, it seems thawt I am not going to finish The Novel this weekend. Thawt’s not to say that I am not close. Very close….
Continue reading“And it’s down to me,” Helen looks up, her eyes bright and blue. She is firm and decided, “I have to finish what I started.” 100,146 / 100,000(100.1%) Okay, well I did always say that the hundred thousand thing was…
Continue readingThere are some harsh critics out there on YouWriteOn. I think I’ve only had one where they’ve loved it… The main problem I have with this story is that there is too much tell and no show. Ben this, Finnur…
Continue readingI’ve just killed an innocent bus load of people in that were in the path of the jökulhlaup, and Ódin is crossing the Bifrost. Need I say any more…? 98,130 / 100,000(98.1%)
Continue readingThe ‘second in command’, so to speak, is called Aðli (pronounced Ath-li), but in my novel the guy in charge is called variously Fréon and Finnur. I like them both, but obviously I have to standardise on one name but…
Continue readingThanks to Helen I now have a copy of my YouWriteOn reading test. I can’t remember how many of you have read any of my novel, but I’m going to give this a go. Try answering my reading test and…
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