Today has been surprisingly busy so i'm just going to write this super quick post. In half an hour i'll be attending a webinar!! Eek. Not super sure how it will go, but hey what have i got to loose right? This one is about overcoming overthinking, so i am going to try and not … Continue reading Just A Word Count Update
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Muted and Listening
I'll be silent on social media for a week in order to amplify melanated voices. Please support where you can. Resources are available through blacklivesmatters.carrd.co. Many do not require any monetary donation.
Well Shh…Sugarplums
The worst has happened. I've saved my writing on a usb for the last three or four months. It made it easy to edit work on both my laptop and desktop. Now my writing has been eaten by nano-gremlins. Today I shall sulk. Tomorrow I'll look into how on earth I recover lost files. I'm … Continue reading Well Shh…Sugarplums
Do You Remember When We First Met
So my best friend wrote this about me. I couldn’t help but show it off.
by Elizabeth Lovatt
(for my best friend)
Do you remember when we first met? Don’t worry, I don’t either.
So here goes, it went like this:
You standing there small and delicate with your light brown hair falling loose down your back and your big Disney eyes which later would get you cast as the Little Matchstick Girl in our school play. You standing there with your mother’s stubborn chin, determination on your face, ignoring all the other kids and looking only at me.
‘Hello,’ you said, confident, as if it was the easiest thing in the world, as if the first day of nursery was no big deal and making friends wasn’t the making of us. Oh, but it was.
Or maybe it went like this:
Me, hiding behind my mum’s legs, pressing nose and cheek into the nylon rub of her knee, until glancing up – I see…
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Write What You Know
I wrote a little more of my novel, thus far I am around eight hundred words into the 'final revision'. I really hope I speed things up or I'll be finishing this when I'm a pensioner. I also wrote up the description of an asthma attack. It's father pleasingly one hundred words. A stabbing pain shoots across … Continue reading Write What You Know
Writing is hard
...Or rather revising is hard. My brain has turned to mush. I'm doing good work but it very much hurts my head. Today I have rearranged eighteen scenes for the latest revision! Today's word count: 500 What it feels like: 10,000 words
Fun with templates
I'm a big fan of Scrivener, I've been using it to write for about a year but only recently discovered how much fun I can have with templates. If you've been following my blog you'll know I've been working on getting my novel ready to be sent off to a couple of competitions at the … Continue reading Fun with templates
Skipping steps never works
Writing and sewing have one very key thing in common. If you rush the early parts the end product is going to rubbish. Not only that it will be incredibly difficult. I am very impatient. It's something I have to work on. My Synopsis is acceptable for this draft but to actually make it exciting … Continue reading Skipping steps never works