Thursday 15th February 2018 I am a bad patient. I know I have to give my finger time to heal. It’s slowly getting there and I’m glad I’ve been sensible. But at the same time, I’m a little frustrated. Not having 101 requests for things to be done for swordfighting is incredibly relaxing. I think [...]
Wednesday 14th February 2018 I have a swordfighting tournament in 10 days, followed by one the following week. I’ve paid, although I’ve not booked a hotel for the one in Bradford yet. Which is just as well, as I have to ask myself if I can even compete. The finger is healing slowly, and it’s [...]
Monday 12th February 2018 When I was young, I used to keep a diary. Every night I would write about my day, as boring as it might be. In many ways, The Climb is an extension of that, taking that documenting of a day and turning it into something very much focus on my writing [...]
Sunday 11th November 2018 Today I’ve been really bored. I still think it’ll be a number of weeks before I start writing something new, and whilst I have a short story I need to work on, I was too restless for what is a delicate bit of prose. And given I spent some time yesterday [...]
Saturday 10th February 2018 It’s a pretty lazy weekend this weekend. Fingergeddon means I’m still not fit to fight, and being on call with the day job means I can’t really go anywhere. So I spent a part of today working on the plot for book 3. I was working primarily with Scrivener’s corkboard feature [...]
Friday 10th February 2017 You’d think after my meeting with Kate yesterday on Book 2’s first draft that I’d be very much thinking about the subplot that needs replacing. But instead, I’ve almost pushed it to the back of my mind. My creative process works best when it’s in the background. So the focus for [...]
Thursday 8th February 2018 Today I met up with Kate to discuss her beta read of book 2. I spent the morning going over her detailed notes and making notes of my own. When reading feedback from a beta reader, there’s a filter you have to put over it. Just because one reader might have [...]
Wednesday 7th February 2018 There’s a quote I picked up a while back. Actually it was 2 quotes, from leaders in two completely different fields, but it said the same thing. It never gets easier, you just get better at dealing with it. My writing career feels a bit like this right now. I know [...]
Tuesday 6th February 2018 There’s this deluded hope you have as a writer. It’s that, one day, you’ll be good enough that your first draft of a story won’t need any work. That it’ll go to a beta reader, an editor or agent and they’ll tell you it’s perfect. That doesn’t happen. It never happens. [...]
Monday 5th February 2018 Today I created a new character for book 3 and I wanted to spend a little time in today’s The Climb explaining my process of how I came up with them. This character will be a personal bodyguard for the Prince. He’ll not only keep the Prince safe but be proactive [...]
