The book with no name

Photo by Suzy Hazelwood on Pexels.com I finished a day ahead of schedule! Came in at about 46k words and overall I'm quite pleased. I'm going to put it aside for a few days, or maybe even a few weeks, and regroup. It's so much easier to focus and digest it all with a bit …

Violence

Photo by NEOSiAM 2020 on Pexels.com It all started off so well. I had an idea, I had a hero, I had a plan. I got a third of the way in and realised that it needed....'something'. It needed more than a bit of mild peril. It needed something really juicy and it needed it …

Counting words

Cat attack The chattering magpie outside my window woke me from a very deep slumber this morning. In this household we have learnt that the cacophony is the soundtrack that accompanies our cat's life. He is an impressive hunter and is prepared to take on pretty much anything that moves. This has its downsides of …

Introducing Characters

Photo by Karolina Grabowska on Pexels.com I think the idea for this post started off as one thing and has turned into another. It was perhaps originally intended to address something along the lines of 'when is it too late to go into detail about a character we've met before?' Or something similarly snappy. However, …

What to do with edits

Photo by bongkarn thanyakij on Pexels.com So, following on from last week, now I have this feedback for my short Western story, what to do? I need to consolidate my drafts, that's the first thing. It's all a little murky though as I converted the story from Scrivener to PDF/Pages for my reviewers and then …

Feedback

Photo by Akil Mazumder on Pexels.com So, after a nail biting few days, I received feedback for my short Western from two people. Different types of feedback, but both invaluable and food for thought. The first comments came in from a published author who has written mostly about various music genres and has also got …