Just realised that it’s been such a long time since the last entry. In my own defence I’ve been busy with all sorts for the last few months, but now I’m getting back on track and will be keeping this site much more up to date. Done a bit of work on the Luck is […]
Coming along steadily, I topped 31k words today, so that’s a nice feeling – it’s progressing. Marc and Lucy are off on their own little adventure, SC is having some success in her nefarious deeds, so she’s feeling happy and we’re just at the point where Lofty and Mannie are thinking about making some […]
Well, Marc and Lucy are off on their big journey – or at least the first of their big journeys. I rather think they’ll have to take at least one more before they’ve finished. I do think that this might be a tad more adventurous than they anticipated. But I also think I’ll need to […]
Looking good, a quarter of the way through, just passed twenty thousand words this evening, when you can get into the habit of writing every day the words just seem to flow. Definitely good advice to make a point of putting some words out on a regular basis. All of the pro writers seem to […]
Had a lazy few days when I hardly managed a few hundred words, but topped 1800 today so I’m feeling a bit pleased with myself. It helps not having any real-life tasks to see to for once. I’ve no idea how people with full-time jobs could manage to complete a full novel, although quite a […]
Now got over 10k words and the story is coming together reasonably well. I have my usual target of about 80k words and if I can keep the daily total in the region of 1,000 to 1,500 per day I should be there or thereabouts sometime in September. There’s already been more action in this […]
The Cold Tale will now take a back burner for a while, I’ve started to work on the sequel to Luck is a Leprechaun. The working title is Luck in a Pickle, but that will probably change as things move on. This will be written in the third person, I’m happier to read works in […]
Luck is a Leprechaun has now been published. The cover features a portrait of Lemmie looking as grumpy as ever. I think I’ve got all of the worst typos and errors editted out and the story is complete but with enough outstanding issues to leave it very open for a sequel. Bucephalus the daemon took […]
The final draft has now been completed and read, with comments. I’ve incorporated all of the comments and corrections that I can. Mrs D was invaluable, as always in this process. It seems the scene in the Jobcentre is simply (and technically) wrong in how those places work, but as the scene covers some things […]
Well (almost) all of the writing has been done. I’m editing and correcting at the moment, which should take a few days and the ending just needs rounding off neatly. The major issue at the moment is the title. Loose Louche simply won’t do so I’m actively considering alternatives. This is actually turning out to […]