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Fun and Games?

Another 1800 words before breakfast today and things are starting to warm up, in the snow. Our heroine and tutor have started to stir things up at police HQ, while our hero has arrived at his quarry, thanks to what I am thinking of as a ‘half-rescue’ (more on that later). Not touched the anti-hero […]

Early Mornings

I’m not sure how long it will last, but I’ve been waking rather early lately, and rather than waste the mornings, getting stuck into the novel.  I can manage about 1200 words between 5 and 7 am. it’s nice to get the daily figure out of the way before the day really starts. I currently […]

Getting Colder and Colder

Unwelcome Visitors is coming along nicely now. I currently need to get through about 1100 words a day to reach the end before 31st October, which should firstly clear the decks for NaNoWriMo beginning on 1st November and secondly should act as a period of practice for November itself. Our hero Inspector Carter seems to […]

Recommended Read

Just finishing ’Save the Cat Writes a Novel ‘ The Last Book on Novel Writing You’ll Ever Need. I don’t normally do reviews, but this book is certainly worthy of some attention.  A couple of years ago I signed up for and started attending a writing course at a local college. What I had hoped […]

NaNoWriMo – The Gift

Provisional title The Gift. I’ll probably change it once there’s a bit more content.  The story will be based on a short that I did for my local creative writing group.  Plot involves a small(ish) town vicar and his struggle against a Satanist cult.  Characters include some undead (not zombies). And their supporters. Our hero, his […]

NaNoWriMo

Okay, so I’m going to make an attempt at the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). this involves an attempt to write a new novel, or at least the start of a new novel, involving fifty thousand words, in the month of November. To make any sort of realistic attempt on this target I need to […]

Winter Not so Wonderland

Unwelcome Visitors is currently getting all of the attention. Currently standing at thirty-three thousand words. we’ve progressed to now know the situation in the neighbouring village, and its not good. Our hero has resolved to investigate and is, even as we speak, en route to do so. One of the sub-villains, the heroes’ current boss […]

Back Again

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 […]

Luck in a Pickle – WIP 5

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 […]

Luck in a Pickle – WIP 4

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 […]