Sunday 26th February 2017 Today has been fuelled by Monster energy drinks. I set my alarm early this morning so I woke up in time to go to swordfighting training. I was very tempted to give it a miss. After all, it’s not like I ever miss training when loads of other people do. But [...]
Friday 24th February 2017 Today the day job robbed me of my mental energy. I spent most of Friday in the day job doing some training with Microsoft. It was a great, intense 1-on-1 session but I need to write up the notes to ensure the training goes in and I can share the knowledge [...]
Friday 17th February 2017 Today I spent most of the day in an office learning about the features of Windows Server 2016. The traffic was terrible and I ended up 20 minutes late, which whilst nobody minded, just put me behind all day. This week has proved a busy work week with the day job [...]
This is a very interesting time for my writing career. On one hand, it could be about to take a massive step forwards. My agent might come back and say we’re ready to take to market. Alternatively they might say there’s still some work to do. And going forward, even if we take the book [...]
As I reach the end of the year, I find myself in the envious position that nearly everything I set out to do this year has been done. I’m naturally feeling very pleased with myself, especially given how ambitious those targets were. I now get to spend December relaxing (i.e. getting bored) working out my [...]
In many ways this feels like an end of the year update, and in some ways it is. Let me explain. As regular visitors know, rather than make new year’s resolutions, I give each year a theme. The first year I did this was after being laid up with Leggeddon and so wanted a Year [...]
Just to let everyone know that my latest article for Fantasy-Faction went live at the end of last month covering the subject of outlining in Scrivener. Be sure to check it out!
I’ll be honest… the writing 2016 is off to a slow start. Part of it is simply being busy on other things but a significant chunk is that after writing 600,000 words in 2015, my brain needs to recharge. […]
So on the evening of the 31st November 2015, I hit a milestone of having written 500,000 words so far this year. […]
NaNoWriMo begins this weekend and I recently did this article for Fantasy-Faction on prepping for the big event. Be sure to check it out. http://fantasy-faction.com/2015/preparing-for-nanowrimo
