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I’ve had my second reading test failure on my work at YouWriteOn, which surprises me because if anything I thought my questions were too easy. Would someone with an account over there mind going in far enough into the review…
Continue readingAnd to think it all started so well… Whilst this is quite well written… It does not get better… :-\ …I found the bleakness of it all a bit of a turn off.Also the opening did not grab me I’m…
Continue reading1. The progress forward of my writing is, this week, going to be largely dictated by a hot stove, and the 8 lbs of damsons and 9 lbs of greegages which I acquired from my parents’ neighbours gardens this weekend….
Continue readingAnd, apparently, 24 hours after my third review I get my first rating. I’ll be intrigued to find out how the rating compares to the reviews I’ve had. Meanwhile this third one is an interesting one… You have talent, and…
Continue readingThe bridge between the worlds takes me another step closer to the metaphorical The End… 97,054 / 100,000(97.1%) It is also Rachel’s birthday. So happy birthday Rachel!
Continue readingFinally, after some two months have got back to The Novel, and progress is being made. The world is fast becoming a changeable and dangerous place, and the various forces are converging in battle… 96,378 / 100,000(96.4%) ~~~ In other…
Continue readingI’ve had my first YouWriteOn review! I confess that I would have preferred something more positive; something that showed a greater sense of the wow, but it’s not unfair. I’m disappointed that the reader didn’t ‘get it’ quite so much…
Continue readingWhilst Bella is more of the active, out-doorsy type, wanting to get stuck into some serious tree climbing, Arthur, it seems is more into literary contemplation. He’s also a bit of a geek. He likes the laptop, and he likes…
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Continue readingI still have the dramatic endpiece and cullmination to write, of course, however I now have a detailed map of how my novel ends. Very much a circle to have all the way around I think it is a nice…
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Continue readingAnd as they converge, so the final ending becomes so much closer; so much more real a thing… 93,508 / 100,000(93.5%)
Continue readingThe annoying thing about driving is that you can’t just stop and write down things that occur to you as you’re driving, particularly when you are cruising at 70 down the outside lane of A34. Similarly I don’t want to…
Continue readingThere is an explanation. I’m not saying that it is necessary the explanation, but it has more than a little to do with the resolution of the story. Will it be an end to Helen and Ben’s sibling rivalry?
Continue readingIt’s a curious thing that there does definitely seem to be a correlation between the more time you have to do something and the less that you actually achieve. So it is, that with a whole weekend spread out before…
Continue readingIt’s always the same. The weekend is spread out before me with hours of quality writing at my disposal. Ample oportunity to to get within a last grasp of the finishing line that is The Novel. And when I am…
Continue readingFor the record, I’m not watching the second series of Lost (currently showing on Channel 4. I’m not wasting my time on it anymore. I heard it was good. It look intriguing. I gave it a damn good go (I…
Continue readingA changeable weekend. An odd mix of cold and grey, and bright and sunny and warm weather. To complement this, I have found myself flitting from thing to thing, unable to settle for long. I’ve done a bit of gardening;…
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