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…
I had quite a major breakthrough this week which has seen me get back to actually laying more words on paper (figuratively speaking). The positioning and placement of the key parts of the bad guy, my antagonist, in the story had been halting my progress on Book 1, and the whole editing process had become…
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…
This update is exciting for me because (a) I’ve hit an important milestone with the current manuscript and (b) because it’s video not words. Enjoy! [siteorigin_widget class=”WP_Widget_Media_Video”][/siteorigin_widget]
The entire process of writing fiction has been quite different to my non-fiction writing, as was to be expected. How much different I definitely misjudged. The ability to write what you know and see it factually correct and know it can be quickly edited and handed to your editor for finalising is completely different to…
World building is important to any fiction novel. In it’s simplest it is just setting up the geographical space that the characters and the story operate in. For a Fantasy novel where the entire world is a fictional construct it is a much bigger job than it can be in more real life settings. I…
I love many genres of fiction, but Epic Fantasy has always been one close to my heart. Growing up, like many people of my era, I read and fell in love with Tolkien and his epic tales. The simplicity of his stories wrapped around such a deep level of world-building hooked me. While many friends…
When I set out on my author journey I had little idea about who I would be as a persona and the way things are shaped by algorithms. I should have given I have spent my life working with web technology and data, and as soon as I started publishing my non-fiction I realised there…
