NaNo was a success for me this year. In the end, I managed 51865 words of my next story. As always, there’s a mixture of feelings, relief and amazement that I actually managed to finish and sadness that I will … Continued
Welcome to the last of this year’s retrospective NaNoWriMo posts. Today, I’m telling you all about last year’s attempt. Let me tell you a little bit more about The Hitman and the Thief. The idea for the novel came from … Continued
Welcome back to my trip through the NaNo projects of the past. This time, I’m looking at 2016. I didn’t attempt NaNo in 2015, I was otherwise engaged in adjusting to life after work, as I mentioned last week. My … Continued
Here’s a story from my first collection of short work, Flash Fiction. It’s not really a Sci-fi tale, it’s set in space but it doesn’t need to be. Totally unconnected to any of my other work, here is my take … Continued
Welcome back to another blog hop, with #OpenBook. Here’s this week’s prompt. Do you embrace dialog or narrate your way around it? Why? I’m a big fan of dialogue, it can be used for so much more than conversation. A … Continued
As I said in a previous post, I have been trying to decide what project to use as my NaNo challenge this year. It’s my sixth year of NaNo, the first five projects are all on sale. Hopefully, whatever I … Continued
Welcome back to another blog hop, with #OpenBook. Here’s this week’s prompt. What is your favorite fruit dish? Can you share a recipe for it? While we’re talking about food, pumpkin, yea or nay? Apples have to be my favourite … Continued
The latest instalment of Andorra Pett’s adventures will be published soon. It’s been out with my beta readers and I’m starting to get feedback. The worry with writing a series is that they can get boring or repetitive, acquiring a … Continued