Perfection (Ha!)
Perfection, what is it good for? I ask myself this question often, but not as often as I should as I find myself striving for just that. And it’s not sustainable, it’s exhausting. What writing is concerned, especially editing, it …
Category: Writing
Antisocial networking
I have talked about technology before and the mention of it in my writing. What social media is concerned, I am extremely lucky. I can’t actually mention these sites at all, as my current novel takes place in a time …
Hello, again
I’m back. I confess that none of my new blog posts got lost in the world wide bandwidth fest that is the web and no one deleted them by accident. Truth is, none of the words I had earmarked to …
Let it be
Recently I read through my novel again. This time, I didn’t make any changes and instead, made some notes of what required changing. You see, up until this point I have either been editing my novel in a sequential manner …
Can you play me a memory?
Last night I was running through airports to catch a flight, all night, or so it felt. At 5:30 am, I had had enough of the dream that seemed to repeat over and over and got up to write this …
Surprise
I recently watched another film based on an unusually popular book and unlike many others, the ending completely surprised me. In fact, it surprised me so much, that I forgave the rapid flow of events at the start and the …
The disappearing dimension
Have you ever heard the expression “If you want something done, give it to a busy person”? I can tell you that I’m that person at the moment and if you hand me something to do outside of a work …
Fiction and reality
More often than not, the birthday (and the birth year) of a character don’t have a great effect on a storyline, unless your novel spans 20 years and you’ve decided to use birthdays as an indication that time has passed. …
Technology – a lot to answer for
I’ve always been a fan of technology. In the last ten years, I have relied on technology to earn a living (for the most part). But technology is changing faster than ever before and we are powerless against it and …
Observations
So you’ve spent a few hundred hours on a novel already and you’ve experienced all different forms of writer’s block, twice. In my case, one of the things I’ve discovered, is that my villain’s name (let’s call him Robert) just …