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Almost end of year review
So, progress has been a bit spotty this year for a variety of off topic reasons BUT! I did finish Dark Carnival and got it submitted to the RNA's New Writer's Scheme readers for feedback (characterisation = good; storytelling = good; technique kind of sucks (not in so many words, but that's the gist of it which is fair enough ( Read more... ) -
Metrics: Update on Dark Carnival
Okay, so we are now up to 74,384 words on the MS so we're definitely going to be breaking the 80K mark in the first draft run through which means that when I add in the sections that I've already noted are missing it will send it waaaay! over and then I'll have to do lots of cutting out! Up to 267 pages so far so not bad (although it has taken me ( Read more... ) -
Hello 2016
Okay, 2016 is underway and there are a number of tasks to complete in the first quarter ( Read more... ) -
End of NaNoWriMo Rebel month
Well, today is the last day of the NaNoWriMo fest and although I haven't completed the type-up/ write-up of Dark Carnival I have progressed so I'm counting that as a partial win. My goal is to have the whole thing done by the last day of December, put it away for a couple of months while I work on something new and then come back to it with fresh ( Read more... ) -
NaNoWriMo Rebel
So, it's been a while since I've posted anything here - well over a year. What can I say? Work's been busy and there's been death, death, death in the family so Twitter was all I could cope with really. But now I've decided that I'll do NaNo again but as a rebel - I've got 60,000 words of a WIP written out longhand; 38,000 words of that 60K typed ( Read more... ) -
And Spring is in the rain
Spring has sprung, the rain falls and it is warm outside - thunder in the offing perhaps ( Read more... ) -
And Autumn has arrived
The sun is still shining and it's still fairly warm but the little bite of Autumn is in the air making it feel lovely outside and demanding we go out for a walk. I wish I'd brought my camera but the phone will have to do ( Read more... ) -
It's July already? How did that happen?
Wow. Where did May and June go ( Read more... ) -
Hello April my old friend...
No snow in April so I'm counting this as a bonus especially as we haven't had the fire lit for the past three weeks which means that the weather has definitely turned! Soon we will stop using hot water bottles as well and I may consider taking a layer of bedding off the bed too! (That could be a step too far, mind. I might wait until mid-May. Just ( Read more... ) -
Hello Spring! Have you sprung?
The sun is out and shining but I am indoors...boo! Ah, well. With any luck the rain scheduled for the middle of the week will have jogged on elsewhere by the weekend as, among other things, I have some tidying up in the garden to do. (And laundry - there is always laundry ( Read more... )