I hope everyone had a great break at the end of last year, and that all the positive energy typically seen around a new year translates to better years for everyone. I had a break from my day job over our summer, allowing me time to reflect on the year ahead and spend more time…
It’s been a hectic month of handling the sales since publication day. Our wrapped and sealed copies of the book have continued to go well. It has been humbling to read the reviews coming in for A Fool’s Errand from readers around the world. Knowing that others have loved the story I created makes me…
I am now at just over 80% of the way through my final edit of A Fool’s Errand. Out of the past six plus weeks this last has been the most productive and I can see the finish line. Setting the release date has been another significant part of the last month as well. It…
I’ve been working through my final edit of book one, A Fool’s Errand. It has started slowly but am now getting to build momentum. Being my first time receiving an editor’s feedback on a fiction manuscript there’s been a lot of things to get sorted out in regards to how I process the inputs and…
Since the manuscript for A Fool’s Errand went off to my editor, I think I’ve gone crazy only three times so far. I don’t have many finger nails left either 🙂 In truth after a couple of weeks of pretending I wasn’t a writer, I have been busy reading the book on my kindle app,…
Well the time has arrived, and today the manuscript for A Fool’s Errand has gone off to my editor. For a first time author this is quite a big moment. It’s both exciting and a little nerve racking. One of the challenges in transitioning from “I’m writing a book” to “publishing a book” is being…
2020 has been an interesting year so far. I’ve been quiet here because I’ve simply been sprinting towards the finish line. I interviewed and selected an editor for A Fool’s Errand which made everything much more tangible. An original date for handing over the manuscript has had to be modified a little due to changing…
Slow progress on the editing at the moment. Mostly due to the editing and pre-publishing of my new Workbook for my nonfiction, which you can see over at Website Planning Guide. I am at about 70% editing of the book, and spending time inspecting the nature of my characters at the moment. Especially the secondary…
The last month has been a busy one in matters unrelated to my fiction writing, so there’s been a break from making solid progress. In completing the latest Non-fiction draft, i set myself a reward for a trip away to reconnect with my novel and get new energy into the editing process. I never had…
At times it feels like I am back at the very beginning writing the first few scenes, and the end of the tunnel is not even imaginable let alone finding any light there. The editing and structural fixes, require lots of time resolving world building elements, and components needed in the later books, that I…
Back in the words, and loving it. Currently working through scenes I identified in my structural audit that needed adjustment. What does that mean? Well in some cases when reviewing the structure of the story I could see that a key scene’s intensity needed to be raised. Think of a scale, if it was only…
Major advances in settling key issues around my protagonist and her story line have been made in the previous weeks, as part of edit 2. This was significant but slow moving. It has taken me a lot more time to get my head around resolving key issues in fiction, verse my non-fiction. I have been…
