This year I am getting all set for my upcoming holiday by looking out a new notebook and making sure I have everything I need in it so I can work on any short story ideas I have while I am away – no large targets or anything, just a few hundred words, or whatever …
Over the weekend I finished editing a story that I will be sending to an anthology, its with my beta readers now. It’s a rather scary wait to see if I hit any of the marks on the story that I was aiming for. Sending it away had been harder than I had thought it …
There are a lot of options for bullet journals. A lot of ideas, and its very easy to just get lost inside the beautiful world of images and designs and forget what the purpose of your bullet journal was. I picked a pre-designed journal for my month/week spreads – which I both regret and am …
I have been working through Holly Lisle How to Write a Short Story course – I am on Lesson 4 now. The techniques she is demonstrating on how to generate ideas and then flesh them out is amazing. For anyone who has done this I was already kinda using a variation of the Muse in …
Second sight was the second short story I self-published. It is about a woman who can see the future but doesn’t want to. I am going back through this story now as I am looking at writing other short stories around Seers, maybe not in this world. If anyone wants to have a read it …
This weekend I finished the redraft of Ride the Rainbow. It’s a bit shorter than I would have wanted the redraft to come out – 48k – but revision will help me sort that. This story has been amazing fun to write 95% of the time. I have a lot of really great characters, and …
I have been doing a lot of reading in and around writers forums, and listening to https://www.alonewithinvisiblepeople.com/ podcast, and I have come across the concept of a Bullet Journal. The idea of this stuck with me. I have never done anything like a journal, or diary consistently so I almost dismissed the idea completed without …
The work over the weekend on Ride the Rainbow was tough. The characters and plots changed as I was running into the ending and what I thought would be a minor change snowballed. The whole ending didn’t change, not exactly, it was just why it was happening, and who was involved. It made writing hard, …
I couldn’t tell you why I stopped writing the first time, I don’t remember what changed anymore, I had self-published 3 short stories. I remember loving writing. Then it was 2017 and it had been years since I had written anything. I was in Australia with work, it was amazing, and I was loving it. …
When I planned my word count for this book, I went to the higher end of book length for the genre I was writing in – 90k words. It’s not a ‘must be’ length. It’s a length that allowed me space to be short, if I needed it. My original maths told me that with …
