It's been a long time since I last had a go at writing a short story. A small UK publisher, Hideaway Fall have started a daily writing challenge. There's a very simple premise behind it. Each day they will share a theme. Those joining in then write a piece, whatever they like, about that theme. …
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Wow, what a crazy time it's been of late for me. Some good, some bad. But the one steady constant - writing. I've still been working like a demon on Chasing Shadows to get that ready for release, but there will be more on that in the future. With Chasing Shadows still being a work …
It's only been a few days since I last updated here on progress with my book, which you can read here. There's a lot of work going on behind the scenes now to get it ready to publish. This update is a lot shorter, but I wanted to follow on from my previous announcement of …
It's mid-July and time for another little update! If you've been following my journey with Chasing Shadows, you'll know in my last few updates I have been toying with whether it was going to be a book in two parts, or two separate books. Well since I last wrote here, I've made a decision. A …
Where did June go? Between everything going on in the world, adapting to a new way of life for the time being and a busy period at work it has flown by. In the mean time I've been working on Chasing Shadows daily, a little at a time. I've not achieved the big numbers I …
I thought I'd mix things up, break from the norm and add an update on Chasing Shadows fairly soon after the last! This will only be a short update, but a major milestone nonetheless! Yes, that's right another milestone passed, so it's time for a celebration! Just a small one, mind you - it is …
Since my last update things have certainly changed! We are all exploring a new normal in one way or another. I'm working on trying to maintain my own versions of normal with reading, blogging and of course, my writing. I am one of the lucky ones - though under lockdown I am at home with …
I'd hoped my next update would be delivering news of a major milestone being ticked off. I've been about two or three chapters from the end of Part 1 of Chasing Shadows for the last couple of weeks. The problem is a simple one - the way this story is progressing and I the way …
Seeing how I've been pretty terrible at updating this blog when I first started it, I vowed when I started writing Chasing Shadows I'd turn this around. So with that in mind, here's my sixth update for Chasing Shadows, or as I like to snappily title it Chasing Shadows - Update 6! This week has …
So as 2020 begins, I thought it would be good to give you a little update of where things are with Chasing Shadows. When I started writing it on the 1st of November as part of NaNoWriMo I wanted to build habits to write daily, whether that would be a hundred words here or a …
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