Another fairly decent week of work, with around 8600 words done. Could have been more but for a weekend taken up with other events. All of this was done on Winter Wolves and definite progress is being made now – I have passed 42,000 words and are part of the way through chapter sixteen. By [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Week in Review: Week Twelve 2009
Posted: March 26, 2009 in writing updateTags: writing, writing update
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I’m frankly a bit embarrassed about this but I seem to have misplaced a character. I’m not talking about a minor character either, I’m talking about a very important main character and the only female one to boot. Just realised there is this gap of three of four chapters where she is meant to be [...]
I’ve started a small, side project – Zombie Blogger! Everyone loves zombies it seems – but no on asks the Zombies what they think of things, so I started a small blog, done from the persona of a zombie, writing about zombies and zombie related matters. It is just a simple bit of fun – [...]
Two Thirds and One Half
Posted: March 23, 2009 in winter wolves, writing updateTags: writing, writing update
Something of an odd title, but currently I am both two thirds and one half through writing Winter Wolves. How can it be both? Simply, I have written fourteen of the twenty one planned chapters, meaning that that part is two thirds complete. Likewise I have written roughly half the planned words. I am not [...]
Week in Review: Week Eleven 2009
Posted: March 19, 2009 in writing updateTags: writing, writing update
Week eleven was a good week. Managed to do around 9500 words during the week, almost all on Winter Wolves. The total for the draft now stands at 33331 words written, over 40% of the desired end total. At this stage I am roughly halfway through the planned chapters, though the word output for the [...]
A return to the musical interludes, and this one was brought about by a youtube video clip. Don’t ask me how they do it. Yep, the familiar strains of the Doctor Who theme – but done via tesla coils and electrical arcs. As you do, I went looking at links to related videos and found [...]
World Building: How It All Began
Posted: March 18, 2009 in World BuildingTags: World Building, writing
This is going to be the first of a number of post relating how the world I call Sharael came into existence, and the changes and alterations – often radical – that became made to it. Sharael is only the current name for it – there have been other iterations of the world’s name, some [...]
Winter Wolves Milestone
Posted: March 16, 2009 in winter wolves, writing updateTags: writing, writing update
I just did a quick count on what has been written so far, including today’s efforts so far, and the total has now passed 30,000 words, half way through chapter ten. All in all around 2/5ths of a book, so still a fair way to go, but progress is being made at last.
Blizzard Creative Writing Contest
Posted: March 16, 2009 in writing updateTags: starcraft, warcraft, world of warcraft, writing, writing update
Just came across a writing contest by Blizzard Entertainment that I am certainly going to have a go at. Challenge is to write a 3k to 10K short story set in one of the universes from either their Warcraft, Starcraft or Diablo settings, due by April 12th. Grand prize is a trip to Blizzard HQ [...]
Had a much better start to this week so far. First three days I’ve written around 5300 words. Down side is that those total the output for three chapters. Hardly long enough to encompass a proper chapter. They do need a rewrite after the draft is complete, but either they will need some major extension [...]
