I had a surprisingly productive evening writing yesterday. I wasn’t planning on doing any writing to be honest. I was planning on spending a quiet evening lying on the sofa catching … Read More
Two Hundred Submissions
Not a big writing day yesterday, unfortunately. I did manage to scrape together another 404 words on The Ghost Smuggler but that took me to the end of a chapter and … Read More
Heinlein’s Writing Rules
This is the third in a series of Meaty Monday posts – longer posts where I ramble on about writing related topics. You can find the first Meaty Monday post … Read More
Shortest…post…ever
Another productive writing day today – 1055 words added to The Ghost Smuggler, bringing the total up to 7262. Now I’m off to write a new Meaty Monday post on … Read More
The Ghost Smuggler Rewrite Week One
Okay, where were we? Oh, yes. Tuesday was the first big test of the new writing regime – a full day of work plus running plus writing – and from … Read More
Was It Something I Ate?
Not an enjoyable day yesterday – let’s leave it at that. I forgot to mention yesterday that we went to see Prometheus on Sunday. I won’t join the hordes of … Read More
The Beginning
Yesterday I successfully kicked off the rewrite of The Ghost Smuggler and wrote the first 2062 words. In the interest of honesty, 896 words of that were a direct copy of … Read More
McSweeney’s Writing Advice
Just a quick update today – I’m full of butter chicken, we’re about to watch Where The Wild Things Are and I have a story to edit – but I wanted to … Read More
Adventures in Sci Fi Publishing
I’ve been listening to the Adventures in Sci Fi Publishing podcast for quite a while now and it’s usually good but the latest episode (168) is one of their best … Read More
Ray Bradbury 1920 – 2012
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlYAhSffEDM&w=420&h=315] RIP Ray – The world has lost an incredible and unique talent.