It's time for the first of my monthly updates on what's going on in the world of my writing!
Tag: Tales
Hello Again!
It's time for me to think about the year ahead and set my stall.
Clearing out the Cobwebs
It's been a while. Things have been a bit all over lately. Work was really tough for me, robbing me of my drive and passion for writing. I just wasn't feeling it. The creative juices had dried up and my desire to work on my writing was gone. This was particularly unpleasant scenario approaching the …
The Season of Good Will
I cannot believe it is almost Christmas already. So much has happened this year. I've had the opportunity to become a freelance proofreader working with my wonderful editor and designer - Jen of Fuzzy Flamingo. So far I have worked with her on three books. Two of those have been released so far, both achieving …
Where Have You Been?
Well hello there! I have once again left you all waiting with bated breath for my next update. Well, wait no more, avid followers! Despite the deafening silence, I have in fact been really rather busy! First up is something that is pretty small, but felt pretty big to me. I discovered Chasing Shadows on …
Here to Help!
So you've read the book and thought it actually wasn't too bad. You'd even consider reading others from the author. But in the meantime, what can you do to support self-published authors? There are a few things that will really help. Self-promotion can be tough for some authors, and time-consuming for many. Certainly for me, …
Lights, cameras, action!
I thought for this post I'd mix things up a little bit and rather than talking books, I'd talk films. Well, hypothetical films anyway. A couple of recent conversations got me thinking. It started out discussing how I visulise my characters. From there, it moved on to whether I saw certain actors playing specific characters …
On Writing
Some of you may recognise the title of this post. That'll be because I pilfered it straight from the cover of a book by one of my favourite authors. That would be On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King. This will become a bit more relevant further on into this piece. Now …
Chasing Shadows – Update 6
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 …
Chasing Shadows – Update 5
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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