It’s been a delightful weekend, at the end of a pretty good week. We enjoyed some sunshine, got Alex a bike and went on a bike adventure, went on a socially distant picnic with friends in our local park, started our wine kit… and, well, I haven’t felt much like writing. I’ve been struggling withContinue reading “Project Songbird: Week 3”
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Book review: Stephen King’s On Writing
Major leagues, in terms of novelist royalty. Stephen King has been outside my consideration for way too long. Like, I knew he existed, and wrote quite a lot, but I think neither of my parents were a fan of creepy stuff, so consequently, I never really saw a pile of Stephen King fiction on aContinue reading “Book review: Stephen King’s On Writing”
Project Songbird: Week 2
Week two of working on Project Songbird in a serious and methodical way went reasonably well. I feel like getting into this practice now will get me writing-fit (like fighting-fit, geddit?) for NaNoWriMo, coming up in November. The thought of averaging about 1667 words a day for 30 days is still pretty daunting, so IContinue reading “Project Songbird: Week 2”
Book Review: Homesick by Marc Raabe
Part of being a better writer is being a better reader. This is something I’ve been working on over time, and is, in itself, part of my shift of habits over the past few months. I just wanted to read more. So I did! So far, I’ve managed to read 15 books, and I’ve beenContinue reading “Book Review: Homesick by Marc Raabe”
Project Songbird: Week 1
I’ve been listening to Stephen King’s On Writing, in which he shows some disregard for the act of painstakingly plotting your work before you get writing, saying that this often kills the story. So I’ve been working on that and the still very vague outline I have for the project in Scrivener, and I’ve beenContinue reading “Project Songbird: Week 1”
Project Songbird: a start
Over the course of the last nearly two months, I have scratched out a little over 25 000 words of blog. It has been immensely satisfying to keep writing daily, and to maintain my unbroken streak as yet. At some point, I’m going to have to symbolically end my streak. Obviously. Today I’m starting aContinue reading “Project Songbird: a start”
PoP! goes my heart!
Ah,another cheesy soundtrack from another Hugh Grant rom-com; and by no means, his best one. It does however, contain the epic line: “I googled you, and you are good!” in his most peculiarly English upper-class inflection. This has become a standard pronunciation of the verb “to google” in my family – to the extent thatContinue reading “PoP! goes my heart!”
Build Me Up Buttercup
So I’ve nearly reached a full 30 days of lightning blogs. I feel like I’m slowly but surely getting my writing mojo back. It’s taken a while, and I think I still have a way to go still. I am not yet at a point that I can sit down and be inspired and justContinue reading “Build Me Up Buttercup”
Holding out for a Hero
Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where’s the streetwise Hercules to fight the rising odds? … I need a Hero! So I’ve been thinking a lot about how to get started with writing my book that I have the cool idea for. It’s kind of a bit intimidating,Continue reading “Holding out for a Hero”
Book review: G.S. Denning’s Warlock Holmes
I’ve been listening to my Audible library trying to get through some of the things I bought on a two-for-one credit sale a while back. I’ve got some highbrow stuff floating through the archive, but, well, also some gentle, familiar, and plain comedy stuff. One such two-for-one purchase was the first two books of G.S.Continue reading “Book review: G.S. Denning’s Warlock Holmes”
Everyday Adventures 