2015 is over. I won’t miss it. It was a year when tiredness had me questioning, more than usual, my writing abilities. I had a bit of a writing breakdown in April when I realised my writing was going nowhere
Recently, some media commentators have said that female heroes are coming to the fore in science fiction because of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Mad Max: Fury Road. But female heroes have been around for years in science fiction,
I have a gift for those who read this blog: a Christmas anthology containing a fantasy story written by me. I have just fixed the epub and pdf file links, as they did not appear to be working. epub file
The graph to the left shows a drop in my word output in November, suggesting I spent much less time writing. That is not the case. My word output dropped because I was proofreading/editing and redrafting. I continued redrafting a
I finished the first draft of Branded in mid-October. At 135,000 words, it is way too big for a young adult novel, so I will have to try to cut tens of thousands of words from it. I have already written
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
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
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
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 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
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,
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.
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