I have finally had a chance to sit down and finishing writing the first draft of The Pit, a short story I have been working on of late. It still needs a polish and I think the end needs a littlw work as well, but I am happy with the overall story beyond that. I [...]
Archive for January, 2009
I’ve added a new blogroll category to the page – Writer’s Links. As time progresses I will add further links to that category, but currently there are just two there. Both deal with collections of markets for short stories (of numerous types), poetry, novellas etc. If you are interested in getting something published, such as [...]
The Week in Review: Week One 2009
Posted: January 7, 2009 in writing updateTags: writing, writing update
Hard to believe but we are already one week into the new year. Just fifty one more to go. In terms of writing output these weeks has been my most productive to date – around 14,500 words. Not quite at my stated goal of 20,000, but that it largely due to me not putting in [...]
The 11th Doctor has been announced and the new Doctor is…Matt Smith. At 26 he is the youngest Doctor to appear in the 46 years Doctor Who has been running. I will reserve my judgment, but so far he just doesn’t look like the Doctor. He looks a bit…metro. We will have to wait until [...]
Second day of the year wasn’t as profitable as the first, as relatives were visiting the state and in the afternoon we were out for a meal, not getting home until just before midnight. A few hours of writing time were lost there. Still, managed around 2500 more words in the morning, pushing the total [...]
Some great news to come out of the New Years Honours lists, with Terry Pratchett now Sir Terry Pratchett, having been knighted for services to literature. Pratchett is best know for his Discworld series, of which there have been 36 books since 1983 - a phenomenal rate of writing. He is also one of my [...]
Well, the first day of the new year has been and gone, and amazingly I kept to schedule. Possibly even ahead of it. The total for the day was 4006 words completed at the end. Could have done more as there were a couple of hours where I got sidetracked by TV Tropes – bad [...]
Happy New Year to you all and welcome to 2009. It is bright and sunny here this morning, a good start to the year. I’m not one to normally make new year resolutions – they invariably last all of a couple of days – but for this year I am setting out some goals I’d [...]
