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Playing with Process
When I decided that I would take my writing seriously – really try and make a go of it – I decided that I would always take risks, that I would never play it safe. For the most part, I’m glad I did...
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Substance Abuse And The Creative Mind
I’ve not watched a lot of TV over the Xmas period – I’m even waiting to watch Doctor Who until I’ve got my new monitor set up – but one of the things that I did was a documentary on the late comedian,...
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Misadventures In Discovery Writing
As some of you are aware, I’ve been writing my latest book using a discovery process. This is where you go into the project not knowing a whole lot about it, and find the plot and story as you write. I...
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Becoming Sir Christopher Wren
As a writer I’ve always had the sort of relationship with process that if it were a Facebook status would read “it’s complicated”. You see, I honestly believe that any writer who doesn’t analyse what...
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Plotting About Plots
I’ve heard it said that each book presents its own challenges and for this one, I think I am going to remember it for the second act. I’ve written it twice now and both times, it is off, the first...
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Evil Plotting
As I’ve previously mentioned, I am currently trying out some new methods for plotting to solve an issue with the second act of the novel. I have a worry that the intensity I’m approaching it at might...
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What’s In A Name?
It took me a year to come up with Cassidy’s name. At one time she was going to be called, rather unoriginally, Angel until someone from my writer’s circle asked whether I was writing fan fiction based...
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Plot Progress
Plotting is taking a bit longer than I anticipated. I think my brain is naturally trying to put on the brakes. Ordinarily I would be writing by now and doing ‘extra’ plotting feels a bit weird. I was a...
View ArticlePlot Process Complete
I think I have a plot. As I’ve previously documented, in order to fix a plot problem with the novel I’ve had to do some serious updating to my writer toolbox to improve my plotting skills. And worried...
View ArticleThe Trusted System
So day 1 of my productivity drive didn’t go too well and it was purely down to my ‘trusted system’. What’s a trusted system? Well it’s just a fancy way of saying ToDo list. Actually calling it a...
View ArticleThe Final Process Challenge
So over the last couple of months I have been making some serious changes to my writing process. Whilst the old process certainly worked (it turned out a decent novel, didn’t it?) I realised that it...
View ArticleThe Process: Stage 1 – Getting Organised
So I’ve had a lot of questions about the process I’m now using to write and which I used to produce the first draft of Black As Knight. It’s quite complex and comprehensive so the plan has always been...
View ArticleThe Process: Stage 2 – Collecting Data
Back when I was going through leggedon I was swamped with things I needed to do. I had to remember to take drugs, exercise the leg, rest the leg, monitor what I was doing as well as what I was eating....
View ArticleThe Process Stage 3: Serious Word Count
So last weekend I wrote 18,412 words on the novel. I also found time to go for a run twice, watch TV, write a 800 word blog post (pushing words written for weekend over 19,000), edit another article...
View ArticleTrying Out ToDoist
As regular blog visitors will know, last year I embarked on a productivity drive to make up for time lost due to the leg injury. It’s proved very effective and I’ve managed to accomplish a lot since...
View ArticleProcess Update
My approach to my writing process is one of continual improvement. I like to discover different techniques and then try them out, fine tuning them and seeing if they match my approach to writing. A...
View Article2015 – The First 11 Days
So we’re nearly two weeks into 2015 and I have to say that things are going remarkably well. The year has started with an incredibly busy 2015 and has only got busier as new opportunities have come my...
View ArticleThe Year of Hard Work Report – January
As I have previously mentioned, 2015 is my year of Hard Work. I have a lot I want to accomplish so the plan for the year is to knuckle down and get them done. So how did I do in January? Much better...
View ArticleThe Genesis Of An Editing Process
So last night, I got to catch up with my friend, Amanda Rutter. It’s been a while since we’ve seen each other so we had a lot of catching up to do. It was also an excellent excuse for All You Can Eat...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo Preparation Article
NaNoWriMo begins this weekend and I recently did this article for Fantasy-Faction on prepping for the big event. Be sure to check it out. http://fantasy-faction.com/2015/preparing-for-nanowrimo
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