Chapter eight now written. Should have two more left to write, so I'm hoping to finish by the end of June. Then it's editing and re-writing time. Current word count estimates are between fifty-five and sixty thousand words, so will need at least another twenty thousand to be eligible for the competition.

( Tales of Tobermoerai, Chapter Eight )

After getting stuck on the plot for a while, here's chapter 7.
( Tales of Tobermoerai, chapter 7 )

Nearly a whole month into the new year already. Sometimes I'm scared by how fast time flows. I'm hoping this one will be better than last year, but in all honesty, it doesn't have to try very hard to achieve it! It has promise, though: two weddings of close friends, a new safari park opening, not to mention our ten year anniversary all impending ( Read more... )

I really hated writing this chapter. I don't think it's dreadful, just not very interesting. I'd be especially interested in seeing what people thought of this one, as I expect it's going to be heavily edited in time.

( Tales from Tobermoerai chapter six... )

Still finishing off chapter six. Once this is done and posted I can get on with writing the more exiting chapters that follow. In the mean time, here is a taste of things to come ( Read more... )

Been meaning to do an update for a while. I'll warn you in advance, there's nothing particularly interesting, but that's not a bad thing as far as I'm concerned: I like peaceful and stable! Anyway, LJ needs more love, as it is Superior to farcebook.

( Work... )

Found these much harder to do...

Shana Whitlaw:


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If you've been reading the previous entries, some of this will seem familiar. I've decided to split the previous chapter in two, so this is the second half, expanded.

( Tales from Tobermoerai, chapter 5 )

Three main characters from the current story:

Milo -


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Joe found me an article on self publishing e-books on Amazon, and I'd like to give this a go with The Ballard of Zephyr Stormchaser. I'm not expecting much, but it would be nice to give it a go and see what happens. In order to do this, I'm going to need to edit it and get it ready. And I'm going to need the help of my lovely friends out there ( Read more... )