Sunday 17th September 2017 There was a time when I got excited about birthdays. Now they just make me feel old. I’d not really planned to do anything for my birthday today. I’d figured I would be knackered from yesterday’s tournament and would want a quiet one. I was, however, determined to make it to [...]
Wednesday 13th September 2017 You’ve probably heard of method acting. This is where an actor is so mentally invested in a role that even when not playing them they take on some of the characteristics. It’s considered by many to be a very in-depth form of acting. I think I method write. This occurred to [...]
Friday 8th September 2017 It’s tempting to think that whilst I’m sat here playing World of Warcraft and tracking friends who are chasing Hurricane Irma, that nothing is going on with the writing career. But the fact is that whilst I try and recharge, the manuscript is currently with my agent. I got an update [...]
Thursday 7th September 2017 This evening was spent going over the new draft of my friend’s short story. I realise this is why I don’t offer to beta novels, as just a 4000 word story took me about 4 hours, which is quicker than the last time I read it. Still, given how many hours [...]
Wednesday 6th September 2017 Well my friend replied to my email with the comments on her story, so she’s still speaking to me. But in a few IMs she did raise a good point. How do you develop a thick skin when it comes to someone critiquing your story? You should blog about it, she [...]
Tuesday 5th September 2017 So I appear to have a new World of Warcraft guild. And by that I don’t mean I’ve joined a new guild. You see, I joined my guild back in the days of Wrath of the Lich King when Ulduar was the current raid. We had some great times, including 9-manning [...]
Monday 28th August 2017 There were a couple of major things I wanted to get this Bank Holiday Monday. The first was to get out and mow the garden. I’d hoped to do it yesterday after coming back from sparring but as always, I returned knackered and didn’t possess the strength to move. Today was [...]
Sunday 27th August 2017 The final stage before I send off a manuscript is what I like to call manuscript prep. It’s the stage where I go and run a spell checker, fix small formatting issues and similar things that need to be done before sending the manuscript off. I’ll check things that I’m worried [...]
Friday 18th August 2017 If it’s possible to both love something and hate it, then I have reached that stage of the novel. I made great progress today. So great, in fact, that I constantly stopped myself to double check I wasn’t becoming slapdash due to an overriding urge to get the novel done. I [...]
Tuesday 8th August 2017 I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather today. There’s a gastric flu going around and it says something about how bad my stomach issues are when I’m not sure if I have a bad case of it or my stomach is just flaring up. As a result I’ve felt a [...]
