How long is it since I last posted here, or anywhere? So long I don't want to look...
But I've been writing again recently, having found some headspace and have just sent chapter 5 of Becoming Anne off to be published on Nifty and Literotica, so keep an eye out there for it. Hopefully, other chapters will follow soon.
Please give me your feedback on anything I've written, and hopefully I'll be giving you more over the coming months...
Wednesday, 9 April 2014
Thursday, 19 December 2013
Apologies
For anyone who's been waiting for more writing from me, I'm sorry. Life has kind of got in the way over the past few months and time seems to disappear whenever I think I might have the time to write. I won't promise anything, but hopefully things will improve in the future and things that I've promised will be written, completed or begun.
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Apologies
Sorry for the lack of writing from me recently - we're in a very hectic time of the year at work, and so there's not much opportunity for me to get to the keyboard and write. I have been adding to the latest chapter of Becoming Anne, and hopefully that will be ready to be posted soon - it's just a case of getting to a natural break and chapter end for it before I post it. Hopefully that will be soon.
The busy period should be winding up soon, though there is the prospect of me getting a promotion in the next week or so which might reduce amount of time I have for writing. I do promise to finish Becoming Anne for you all, though, no matter how long it takes!
The busy period should be winding up soon, though there is the prospect of me getting a promotion in the next week or so which might reduce amount of time I have for writing. I do promise to finish Becoming Anne for you all, though, no matter how long it takes!
Sunday, 14 April 2013
For the end of the weekend or the beginning of the week
Something new to read: Becoming Anne Chapter 4 is now up on Literotica. Hope you enjoy it if you've enjoyed the other parts, and thanks to everyone who's read and commented on it so far - seems to have been a flurry of votes on my work over the weekend, and it's always appreciated. Chapter 5 should be submitted early in the week, and I'll keep you up to date with any release news as the chapters appear.
Happy reading!
Happy reading!
Thursday, 11 April 2013
Ready to read
Success
Just after 6pm yesterday, I crawled over the finishing line and with a grand total of 100,076 words, I completed the 100,000 words in 100 days challenge. I also completed Part 4 of Becoming Anne in the process, which should be appearing on a website near you very soon.
It's been fun doing the challenge, though it's also been tough at times, and I was definitely flagging towards the end of it. I had a lot of momentum going when I was working on Bite - and had The Way To Her Heart to also add to - but once those two were finished, I wasn't really sure where to go next. As I found when I did NaNoWriMo with short stories, the trouble with doing multiple stories is that each one can take time to build up its own momentum, whcih means you don't get the benefit of those sections where you're able to cruise through the story and fill in background if you can't think of anything else to write.
But I did do it, and I've got some useful drafts of stories out of it - Bite, I think, will work really well with the ideas I've got for the rewrite, and the characters in The Way To Her Heart are great, I just need to add some others in there to give them more people to interact with, and some jeopardy and threat to provide a bit more drama.
The main point is that I've finished it, and am still feeling motivated to write more - and I have to, as I've been serialising Becoming Anne, so can't abandon that partway through! - and want to get on with these stories and another one that's been rattling around my head for ages, which I think I can now see a way to make work. Whether I'll average 1000 words a day for the next 100 days too, I don't know, but now I know I can keep writing at that length over a long period, it's good motivation to keep me going.
Today, though, will be a day off from writing - not because I need the rest, but because I've got too much on at work to have any time to do it. Hopefully, though, this weekend will have lots of opportunities for writing - though I do say that about every weekend, don't I, and then spend Monday morning's post explaining why it didn't happen.
It's been fun doing the challenge, though it's also been tough at times, and I was definitely flagging towards the end of it. I had a lot of momentum going when I was working on Bite - and had The Way To Her Heart to also add to - but once those two were finished, I wasn't really sure where to go next. As I found when I did NaNoWriMo with short stories, the trouble with doing multiple stories is that each one can take time to build up its own momentum, whcih means you don't get the benefit of those sections where you're able to cruise through the story and fill in background if you can't think of anything else to write.
But I did do it, and I've got some useful drafts of stories out of it - Bite, I think, will work really well with the ideas I've got for the rewrite, and the characters in The Way To Her Heart are great, I just need to add some others in there to give them more people to interact with, and some jeopardy and threat to provide a bit more drama.
The main point is that I've finished it, and am still feeling motivated to write more - and I have to, as I've been serialising Becoming Anne, so can't abandon that partway through! - and want to get on with these stories and another one that's been rattling around my head for ages, which I think I can now see a way to make work. Whether I'll average 1000 words a day for the next 100 days too, I don't know, but now I know I can keep writing at that length over a long period, it's good motivation to keep me going.
Today, though, will be a day off from writing - not because I need the rest, but because I've got too much on at work to have any time to do it. Hopefully, though, this weekend will have lots of opportunities for writing - though I do say that about every weekend, don't I, and then spend Monday morning's post explaining why it didn't happen.
Monday, 8 April 2013
Can I do it?
So, there are three days left in the 100,000 words in 100 days challenge, and I'm currently at 92,479 words, which means another 7,521 are needed to drag me over the finish line, or about 2500 a day. Didn't get any done over the weekend because of other commitments, but luckily work commitments for the next couple of days are quite light, so it's time to get my head down and do it.
Part 1 of Becoming Anne is now up at Literotica, so please take a look, rate it and comment on it, and other parts should be following in the next couple of days, assuming I manage to get my head into gear and write it.
Wish me luck, and hopefully I'll be at the target soon!
Part 1 of Becoming Anne is now up at Literotica, so please take a look, rate it and comment on it, and other parts should be following in the next couple of days, assuming I manage to get my head into gear and write it.
Wish me luck, and hopefully I'll be at the target soon!
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