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Ook?
I talked a couple of posts ago about Neil Gaiman, and how his latest book, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, is beautiful in its simplicity. The language is nothing fancy, but somehow Gaiman weaves...
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Georgey Boy
So the royal baby has a name. To be honest, they had about five names to choose from, so I’m surprised it took so long… Source:...
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A Genuine Hero
Saw this chap on Thursday night and he was just as warm, entertaining and inspiring in real life as he was in his book. The guy is a legend. (And he has a lovely singing voice!) Chris Hadfield was...
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The Results Are In
I’ve got my preliminary results from my big science experiment, where I recorded word counts and information about my environment/mindset. While I don’t have a ton of data after only four weeks, I can...
View ArticleDaily Diary: Fri 19th Feb 2016
0700: up and at ’em. Just changed my alarm to Stand Up by the Prodigy. If you don’t start the day by swaggering like a superhero ala Kickass, then you might as well stay in bed. So I’ve finished the...
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Writing With No Outline
The first episode of Diaries Series 2 is OOT! Sign up to the mailing list to get your free access to Diaries. I write Diaries differently to how I write my novels: into the abyss, with no clue about...
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Commander Release
It’s finally here! At last, Commander has been cleared for launch. It’s ebook only right now; paperback will be out later this month. However, you can get the ebook on sale until 20 March on Amazon....
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Diaries Episode 2
Is here! What’s that? A few days late, I hear you say? Nah… surely not. *shuffles to one side* My feeble excuse: I’m on the homeward stretch for my fantasy novel and time kinda got away from me. When...
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Reunions
(Warning: there is a photographic GoT spoiler at the bottom of this post) Time to talk about process. It’s changed a little bit of late. Actually, as I’ve already talked about, I simply joined hands...
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MIA/M6
This may be a long post. First of all, I’ve been editing Mission 6 (a Commander prequel novella) and it should be with email subscribers in the next couple of weeks. Yay! Also, I must briefly mention...
View ArticleWriting Diary 7th July 2016
0715: Rolled out of bed to take bread out the breadmaker. Rolled back into bed. 0745: Rolled back out of bed and onto yoga mat. Wrists are killing me so sun salutations had to be done on knuckles....
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Mission 6
BOOM! I proudly present Mission 6, a Commander prequel novella. You can read it as a standalone, but I heartily recommend reading it after Commander. You can only access Mission 6 by subscribing to my...
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Moronface
So, I wrote a post back in July about how I was going to rewrite Com 2. Know what I did instead? I convinced myself I could revise it into shape. NOPE! After realising my mistake, I wrote another book...
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Fun Writer Moments
In celebration of my recent WordPress/GIF marriage, I thought I’d share my post from the epic kboards GIF thread… Fun Writer Moments Expressed by GIFs When your CP points out a plot hole When you’re in...
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Second Book Struggle
Have spent the weekend Musing and (more importantly) finishing Dragon Age Trespasser. I’ve been in love with the Inqusition/Trespasser albums since they came out, and so obviously DA was my first game...
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Magick
That’s right – with a k. So, my current fantasy WIP (The Night Mage) is standing at fifteen thousand words. I know my ending, and I know my two main characters pretty well, but there’s a lot of the...
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Writing Diary 26th Oct 2016
Spent the whole yesterday diving deeper into Paganism and Celtic magic. Becoming mildly obsessed. I definitely want to cover more of this in my stories. I have 60k of a murder mystery involving Pictish...
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Nano Goals
Now the clocks have gone back, it is officially Winter (in my book, anyway). And there are officially people and establishments putting up their Christmas decorations, who should therefore officially...
View ArticleNano ’16: Day 2
Yesterday was a bit crappy. I got stuck in the story, then, as I always do, I changed up my ENTIRE routine, proclaimed all is lost blah blah, and binged on Gilmore Girls. But all was not lost: I was...
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Nano ’16: Day 8
Nano word count to date: 1: 794 2: 5000 3: 0 (bad day, but watched nearly half a series of Gilmore Girls) 4: 4011 Linlithgow Palace 5: 0 (in Linlithgow having fun) 6: 0 (couldn’t be arsed/mildly...
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