This month I’m attempting NaNoWrimo which is proving very difficult. I’m dangerously behind schedule. That means this blog is going to be short and sweet. I have been super busy, though, so here’s a sampler: Evinden is now up to chapter 3! The story is already pretty exciting and super mysterious, so Read more…
Arms Race is, at last, finished. I thought it was finished on Sunday evening, then made the mistake of showing it to Swiss filmmaker Marco Von Moos, who proceeded to point out a number of areas in the cut that could be considerably tightened. Annoyingly, he was absolutely correct. Thus Read more…
Not found the time to blog either here or over at Potential Gamer for over a month; similarly the Spiffing Review has taken an unfortunate back seat. That’s what NaNoWriMo does to you. It’s over now, of course, and I’m exceedingly pleased to have made the 50k word count within Read more…
NaNoWriMo 2009 has begun. It being the annual, global challenge to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November, from start to finish. To do so means writing about 2000 words per day, which in theory should be entirely doable. On my first day yesterday I hit 1,792 Read more…
My claims of “first draft compete!” earlier this week were slightly premature. Since then I’ve done some additional fiddling and formatting and only NOW have a proper first draft. Quite a respectable length, really – about 25,000 words short of Dune. Whether the quality is worth speaking about remains to Read more…
I’ve decided to make this blog entirely about my writing efforts, which currently are focused on Evinden. This should make everything far more purposeful, rather than every post drifting about aimlessly as they have for the last couple of years. I imagine it’ll also result in my posting for more Read more…