Lucy the Guardian of the Knowledge
Just a bit part for Lucy as yet. But she might just pop up later in the story. It’s coming along quite nicely I think. I do have a tendency to be a bit wordy sometimes but I guess its easier to write too much and then cut it back later than it is to […]
Loose Louche is a lousy title
Not a good title I know but it’s all I have at the moment. Got the main characters sketched out. their names and attributes are more or less set in stone. This is intended to be a fairly black and white story. The good guys and the bad guys should be pretty evident from the […]
Up and Running – Fully
Sorted out the issue with publishing the paperback version of Never Again it seems there’s a conflict between the latest version of Mac OS and the Print Previewer on Amazon. Fortunately I could use my backup laptop that uses Linux and that worked with no problem. I’ve ordered my copy of the paperback, should be […]
Up and Running (sort of)
Never Again The Prequel to Seven Sisters Series is now published. At least in epub form. For some reason the paperback version is reluctant to complete. Not to worry I’ll have another go at it tomorrow. I only really wanted to publish this version in ebook form anyway. Next on the list is a thriller, […]
Slowly but (not so) surely
Never Again is now fully drafted and has had its first edit. Still not entirely convinced that all the parts are necessary or that they all work, so I’ll probably print it out today some time and read the hard copy. It currently runs to 120 pages but that’s with the extra line spacing that […]
Editing
Strange that editing a completed piece seems to take almost as long as writing it in the first place. Plus it’s pretty boring as well. Out until mid-afternoon today so no progress until after then.
Success after a fashion
The first draft of the prequel is now complete. The final word count was about 31k. And today I managed over 6k words which is rather more than I intended to do in one day but when the mood strikes you, you have to go with it. Now I’m into editing and some minor re-writing. […]
Getting closer?
Do we get closer to the end as we write more? I’ve done another 1500 words this morning and had hoped that I’d be almost done with the first draft by now. Yet I could go on, and on, and on… and still not arrive at an ending. I still need to read and edit […]
A prequel or a saga?
So today I managed around 5k words. I was out this evening or it might have been more! The big battle scene isn’t quite as big. But I left an opening for a sequel to the prequel! So I guess that will have to do. The first draft should be done tomorrow or the day […]
Progress is being made
Well my first thought was about 15k words as a prequel. I reached that with ‘just the big battle scene to craft’ so I extended the expectation to 20k words. I just passed 20k this evening and still feel that over half the scene is still to come. Maybe 25-30k words in the first draft. […]