Also featuring stories of drafts and edits Outside the window, the world warms, stories of life everywhere. Swirls of storks climb invisible spirals. Beneath, strata of swallows manoeuvre, twist, brake and snatch, manoeuvre, twist, brake and snatch. Lower still, plummeting…
Expect more on Operation Rising Cream soon. Needless to say I have yet to make a definitive decision on the whole matter. When one has spent years of one’s life working on something, one wants the best for one’s work.…
So, don’t you just hate how many people these days seem to start sentences with “so”? I mean, it’s everywhere — Radio 4 is a big culprit, but then so are real flesh and blood people on the streets. Or anywhere…
I am now back at the word-grindstone, after having re-ordered and pulled, poked and prodded my manuscript into something now resembling the “correct order”. If such a thing exists. You are only reading this because I have already hit my…
Today I am having a “day off”. This is not the same as a day off, which is an entirely different kettle of fish. A “day off” involves little work on my fiction. Instead I channel my creative energy (and…
I have spent much of the past four days rearranging scenes, removing continuity errors, and finally getting to grips with exactly what happens when. Using Scrivener has made this a lot easier than it might have otherwise been. I have…
I love Scrivener. It makes things so much easier for working out where I am in a huge body of work. It makes ideas and changes visual, ensuring I do not lose track of the whole or the details. This…
Today I should hit 90k words, revised, rewritten and mostly edited. This is a good day, although I am conscious of the fact I still have nearly twice that to complete. And then the final edits.
