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I am the God of Hellfire
More words, more burning things. Seems to be an awful lot of fire in this series. More even than the leprechaun on my shoulder tells me to put in.690 words today, and I just realised I forgot to...
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Plot Wrangling
520 words today, where I try to wrangle the book back onto some form of plot-based trajectory. Not that I need a strong plot throughout, but it's sure as hell going ot make it easier to rewrite if it...
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Loving it
Got up early this morning, made some coffee, and got down to a bunch of writing. A scene and a half written, not too sure where things are going right now, but added 1150 words to the wordcount,...
View ArticleROOOOOOAAADTRIP!
I love the internet. This weekend we travelled almost 300 miles across the country to go to the wedding of our wonderful friends Neil and Nikki, despite only having met Neil once before, and Nikki,...
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Unto the breach
Once more...Very little was achieved over the weekend in terms of work. Saturday and Sunday were spent travelling-carousing-travelling, and yesterday was a distinct recovery period. I wrote a page...
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910 words
Cracked the 20K barrier!Now I really must go do those human non-writerly things which I probably should've done half an hour ago, like shower, and stick some part-baked bread in the oven for my lunch.
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Article 18
650 words, making a progress of:Mayhap I'll hit 25% by the weekend. That'll be fun. I'm currently starting to wrangle things into some sort of plot direction, so we'll see where that goes. I also have...
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Article 17
More words! Mwahahaha! 720 of them, to be precise.It's also fun to be writing this book from two perspectives, one of whom isn't sociopathic. Given that they're both dealing with grief of a sort, it...
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Leaping Ahead
After I spectacularly failed to get any writing done yesterday (I blame Adam & Joe, rugby followed by Doctor Who, plus work hangover from a few tough days) I made up for it this afternoon with a...
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Article 15
Despite a lie-in, I finally made it to 560 words this morning, with Vaucher firmly sidelined while he watches and waits for other people to do stuff. I'll fix it in post.
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Article 14
500 words. Managed to get most of that through internal monologue and exposition. Not my greatest day's writing evar, but it is E3 after all ;)
View ArticleCatch-up
As usual, I stop writing, and my LJ posts drop off a cliff. Except I've actually been writing for the past three days, and still failed to post (although that's more down to the choice between gloating...
View ArticleNew userpic!
It took going through the whole Google+ customisation to realise that I have precisely two decent photos of myself over the past couple of years. And since the newest pic I've got on LJ is about five...
View ArticleArticle 11
Another thousand words this morning on my Vaucher childhood backstory piece. As much as this was always intended just for my own reference, I'm having so much fun writing it I may have to release it...
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Draft 1-1
Two consecutive days of working on a manuscript suggests I'm potentially back on the wagon. I've been mostly hanging around on Google+ recently, hence my absence from LJ; it's also mostly because the...
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You build a wall...
More work on WIP Book 2 this morning, including a certain amount of scavenging of the pre-draft:There's at least one scene in the next chapter that I just need to restructure - one of the characters is...
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Article 8
Another couple of thousand words further along this morning; some of it being new stuff on the mechanists plotline - which I'm not 100% sure the endpoint of - and some being slight edits to the...
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Perfectly Good Rocks
I was never a particularly sporty student. Going to school in Gloucester it was expected that you played rugby, cricket at a push, every Wednesday afternoon, neither of which I was very good at, so I...
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Just Married!
After about six months of frenzied (read: disorganised) organisation, a week and a half ago Jenny and I finally turned up at Craig Y Nos castle, filled a room with friends and family and got the deed...
View ArticlePostcards From Lepari
After months of procrastination and practically giving up on the whole idea, after an epiphany last night I've just launched my new extra-short podcast fiction blog, Postcards From Lepari. The whole...
View ArticleThings, Post
Things:- My good friend and co-conspirator Gareth has just been shortlisted for the Wales Blog Awards for Best Writing, and if you were to pay a flying visit to I Saw Elvis I think you'd agree that...
View ArticleSeason's Greetings!
Hello Livejournal. Long time no see.*awkward shuffle* *lowered gazes* *someone puts the kettle on and all's right with the world*Anyway, I just dropped by to mention that there's a special extended...
View ArticleEastercon Plans
Amongst an otherwise fruitless weekend, I spent most of this morning booking trains for our Eastercon trip. Since I have a very understanding wife, we're going to be rolling the con up into our belated...
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Shameless Art Plug
Jenny recently released a new piece of artwork, The Hunting of Ducks, inspired by her love of videogames and her studies of Egyptology:We're planning a whole series of ancient art/gaming crossovers, so...
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Eastercon Round-up
When I was tiny, my Dad took me and my brother to a small computer trade show in our hometown. Even at such an early age I was already in love with gaming, so a room full of computers and games and...
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