Ever since I created my logo, I have been going back and forth on it thinking something was missing, so I made a new logo. I decided that the lack of something closing around it was the problem, so I spent a bit of time looking at different options and I’m loving this new design. […]
I have the Copy edits back for Rift Bloodlines Book 1 – Buried by Earth…. and I have finished reviewing them. For some reason, I’d thought this process would take a few weeks, but it didn’t – which is a nice change to over estimate 😉. I learned that I clearly don’t understand commas, and
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Draft 2 of all the short stories for Rift Bloodlines are done! I’ve added a page to show my pretty new covers for them, and their titles. Origin Short Stories for Rift Bloodlines When I was writing the Rift Bloodlines series, I was struggling a bit with motivations around the characters’ wounds and how it
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My 2023 projects were pretty simple to pick. All Rift Bloodlines books, and compiling Ernie. The question is, will I have enough time to finish the books? Rift Bloodlines Book 1 – Buried by Earth Book 1 of the Rift Bloodlines series is the one that is the furthest along of of the first three
In 2021 I started keeping track of how much time I spent writing, and how many words I got. This really helped when it felt like I wasn’t making progress on anything. It showed that I am moving forward. In 2022 I continued with this process and surprisingly the numbers were similar to last year.
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This last fortnight, I have been working on the two prequels for Book 2 of the Rift Bloodlines series. Amelia’s story came out around 8k and Mitchel’s came out around 9k. Both longer than I’d planned. But the end result was worth those extra words. I wrote prequel shorts to each of the Rift Bloodlines
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I thought writing a series would be the same as writing a novel; I was wrong. There are so many more factors that you need to focus on, and you need to know about when you write the first book. A lot of those factors might already exist in a book, you just use them
This last week my focus has been much better. I got a lot more done in the time I had and got to have some of the downtime I wanted. Of course, that does not mean I was 100% successful. It is going to take conscious effort to maintain. Organisation and prioritisation are both required.
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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
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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
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