In the current climate of terror, we ventured out into the open this morning, Mrs D and myself, armed only with a small warning bell and a long pole to keep the ‘others’ away. We ventured onto the beach at St. Annes. Fortunately the tide was out so we had all of seven or maybe […]
A historical story, like any other needs a prompt, something to get it up and running. Dark Roads had several. The first I suppose was a gift one Christmas from my wonderful wife, of a book entitled Mapping the Roads, by Mike Parker, a fascinating history of map making in Britain. Having read Mapping the […]
It’s been a while, but although I’ve not been updating on here since December, I have been writing regularly. In the last post I mentioned a new, dark antagonist and I’ve now included him as the hidden, supernatural villain in a historical adventure. The working title is Dark Roads and it’s set at the start […]
So, the ending has sill not materialised, but I’m getting a few thoughts about it. I have several other projects that are waiting in the wings, for either completion or commencement and I really need to finish off the Book Without a Story. Today might be a bit busy, but while I might not get […]
Completed the necessary50k words by 22nd November, so the pressure is off in that respect. The total word count for Book Without a Story is now around 72k, which is pretty good for a first draft and done in a very short time, so I’m pretty happy with that. The big problem at the moment […]
The working title for the NaNoWriMo project says all you really need to know about this piece. (for the moment, at least). It’s progressing well. I’m aiming to complete the first draft by the end of November. I’ve set my usual overall target for the novel of 80k words and I currently need to complete […]
Okay, so it’s now the 6th of November and I’m six days into the NaNo thing. Currently standing at just over 13k words, which is ahead of schedule for the month. Apparently we need 1667 words a day average to hit the target. I’ve also set myself n 80k word target for the whole book, […]
Got all of the plot for the next novel sorted. A complete change of pace this time. It’ll be more of a slightly surreal, humorous satire. I don’t want to say too much at this time, but I pretty well know exactly where it’s going. I have a few characters in mind, including a hero […]
The first draft is now complete, around 78,500 words, done and dusted. I’ll print off a hard copy for editing later today and then put it away for a little while, probably until NaNoWriMo is out of the way. Hopefully, Mrs D will give it a serious going over first. I’m aware of a few […]
I set the target as 75k words, and the end date as 31/10/19. Just about there for the word count, but still not finished with the story. Still, it’s a bit of the pressure off for the numbers. I can see the end of the main part of the story and I’m almost there, just the […]