My writing efforts in September
Once more, it has been a while since my last post. I have been extremely busy writing and doing other writing activities, as you will see in my update for October. But this post is about September. In September, my Ulcerative Colitis decided to remind me of its existence, so I had to take some medicine, […]
My writing efforts for August.
I have finally made time to write my monthly blog post about my fiction writing efforts for the previous month. I have been extremely busy writing, editing, critiquing and being sick. Yep, my ulcerative colitis has come back at the wrong time, but when is a good time for it? Fiction Writing. I continued writing […]
My Writing Efforts in July.
I am starting to feel a bit more like a writer who is actually doing more than dreaming about becoming a novelist. July has been my best writing month this year, as shown in the graph. I wrote 17,127 words of my novel in the month, an average of 552 words per day. And I […]
My writing efforts in June.
I wrote more words of my novel in June than May, even though I started using Facebook again. I had a rule of not logging on to Facebook until I had written at least 500 words. So, on some days, I did not even log on to it. However, I developed the habit of stopping […]
A Review of Steve Amsterdam’s What the Family Needed
I enjoyed Steve Amsterdam’s award-winning apocalyptic, climate change novel Things We Didn’t See Coming, so I quickly purchased a copy of his follow-up novel What the Family Needed. Calling Things We Didn’t See Coming a novel might be a misnomer as it is a collection of short novellas. But they all feature the same character and […]
My Writing Efforts in May
In May I started behaving more like a writer, even though I am still very tired. I wrote a lot more, and I started critiquing again. I put this down to quitting Facebook six weeks ago. I really missed Facebook, to begin with, but not so much anymore. I gave myself permission a few days […]
Review of Brother in the Land
Brother in The Land begins with teenager Danny taking a break from working in his father’s corner store for a long bike ride into the English countryside. It starts to rain, so he takes shelter in a World War II pillbox. As he waits for the rain to stop, he sees the flashes of nuclear missiles […]
My Writing (meltdown) in April.
I had a writing meltdown in April. I was, and still am, frustrated with the lack of output and progress with my fiction writing. Strangely, the meltdown was caused by my non-fiction writing after I submitted an article to Divine in mid-April. The editor immediately replied, wanting a few changes. Most of the changes were […]
Hugo’s sad puppies.
There is a lot of controversy surrounding the Hugo Awards this year. For those of you who don’t know, the Hugos are science fiction awards for best novel, best short story, best movie, etc. Books and movies are nominated for the Hugo by people who attend that year’s Worldcon or pay a non-attending membership fee. […]
My Writing Efforts in March.
Novel Writing. In March, I added 5848 words to Branded, a science-fiction, young adult novel, so I improved on February’s 4841 words. I averaged 188 words per day in March compared to 173 words per day for February and 155 words per day in January. The novel is now just under 70,000 words. It has […]