It’s NaNoWriMo 2024. I’m looking back at NaNoWriMo’s of the past, part 3

As I mentioned, I’m busy writing this year’s NaNoWriMo project, Andorra Pett Meets her Match. As I won’t have time to write posts, I’ve put together this series of retrospectives from my past NaNo challenges in advance, so that I … Continued

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NaNoWriMo 2024. Looking back at NaNoWriMo’s of the past, part 2.

As I mentioned, I’m busy writing this year’s NaNoWriMo project, Andorra Pett Meets her Match. As I won’t have a lot of time to write posts, I’ve put together this series of retrospectives from my past NaNo challenges in advance, … Continued

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NaNoWriMo 2024. Looking back at NaNoWriMo’s of the past, part 1.

As I mentioned, I’m busy writing this year’s NaNoWriMo project, Andorra Pett Meets her Match. As I won’t necessarily have time to write posts, I’ve put together this series of retrospectives from my past NaNo challenges in advance, so that … Continued

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A new idea takes shape. Welcome to Helcon City.

While I’m preparing for NaNoWriMo, my other projects have not taken a back seat. Far from it. They continue to be a distraction to whatever I’m trying to work on, continually poking in and disturbing my train of thought with … Continued

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Getting my Space Ducks in a row.

As I said to you last week, I’m getting ready for NaNoWriMo and continuing Andorra Pett’s adventures. As I made a few notes, I realised that I needed to re-read Andorra Pett on Mars, the second in my Andorra Pett … Continued

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For NaNoWriMo this year, I’m revisiting an old friend.

This is the time of the year when my thoughts normally turn to November. And the thought of writing 50,000 words in a month. I’m grateful to NaNoWriMo, if I hadn’t found it, back in 2014 when I had time … Continued

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Stopped in my tracks. When technology lets you down.

Although you could argue that it’s a first-world problem, the demise of my desktop PC has slowed my whole writing progress. Over the last few years, I had become used to it being on all the time and ready to … Continued

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Free for the next few days, a tale of survival.

I had the idea for this story back in 2012, as a spin-off from my novel, Freefall. In Freefall, I’d invented a side character, who was peripheral to the plot, a galactic explorer in the history of the universe I’d … Continued

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