I clocked up 4,466 words last week – a mix of The Ghost Smuggler, some rough work on the opening to my zombie novella project and a few hundred words on … Read More
Metrics Monday – 10th March 2014
Another week without a real post. This time I do have an excuse, my wife and I spent a few days in Seattle last week (there’ll be a real blog … Read More
Metrics Monday – 3rd March 2014
The two productive weeks I had planned didn’t really pan out how I expected them. Rather than two weeks of creative productivity I had two weeks of day job shenanigans, … Read More
Metrics Monday – 17th February 2014
Last week was pretty solid, 4,622 words. I did do a quick bit of work on the outline for the Diary project but otherwise the bulk of that came from a couple … Read More
Metrics Monday – 10th February 2014
Work got in the way of writing in a dramatic fashion this week – we have a new title coming out on the 25th of February and there was some … Read More
Metrics Monday – 20th January 2014
Very late metrics, we’ve been on holiday in the Bahamas so no blogging for me. But I did get some fiction writing done which helped me hit 4,666 words for … Read More
Metrics Monday – 13th January 2014
A pretty good word count for the first full week of the year – 4,345. Most of the writing was the revisions to The Ghost Smuggler which are going well. I’m … Read More
Structural Integrity at 73%
On Thursday afternoon I pulled up The Ghost Smuggler and started the revision process. I’m starting with a high level look at the overall structure, looking for holes, ripping out the weak … Read More
Vital Statistics 2013
However you measure it, 2013 was my most productive year in the 20 odd years I’ve been dabbling with this writing malarkey. Here’s the stats for last year (numbers in … Read More
Metrics Monday – 30th December 2013
Okay, not a 10,000 word week – 6, 701 – but I did wrap up Glitch Mitchell and the Unseen Planet and kick off a new story I wasn’t expecting to … Read More