Good for knotted backs, and knotted plot problems. Unbound Well, that’s it. First draft done. I’m not 100% sure about the ending, and I have a few pages worth of notes to start revision with, but I think (hope?) that most of it is in pretty good nick. What did I learn from his novel? …
Monthly Archive: July 2010
Jul 30
Story Spruiking
My wonderful writing buddy Rabia has a story up at Flash Me magazine at the moment. She’s a great writer who I admire a lot, so I totally recommend popping over there and having a read! It’s short and… well… not that sweet actually. Kinda dark. But we like it that way, don’t we. *evil …
Jul 29
It’s kinda like playing dress-ups, except you can do it in your pjs and it drives you mad
I have taken this week off work to finish Unbound. The ending is kicking my arse and I seem to be oscillating between book-love and book-hate, like, three times in the past fifteen minutes. Also learning that pretending to be a full-time writer ain’t all fun and kittens and sparkle. Spending all day with invisible …
Jul 20
I got your ragnarök right here
Behold, the end of the world: Navi has a skin irritation, poor thing. Luckily for us, she’s out of the cone now. Sadly, we are still all doomed to feel her wrath. The vet thinks it’s an allergic reaction to something in her food. So she has to eat The Most Boring Food Ever for …
Jul 12
Instead of disturbing my hard working writing buddies…
…I’ll write a blog post. Aren’t I kind. Unbound Hit a small stumbling block today. We’re at ‘the beginning of the end’ of the novel, and today I was writing one of those big moments. You know the kind. Main character’s in a tight spot, OMG we’re all doomed, then something happens. Something that changes …
