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And so we are done with day five of NaNoWriMo. Total a the moment is 8800 words. The target for the end of day five was 8334 so I’m just managing to keep ahead of the target to reach 50000 words by the end of the month. So far I haven’t had any major interruptions. [...]

Four days down, twenty six to go. So far my total is up to 7642 words. That puts me just ahead of schedule – the goal for the end of day four was 6667 words to reach that magic 50,000. So far I have done the first three chapters, introducing the main characters. I have [...]

Day Three of NaNoWriMo has come and gone, which means we are 1/10th of the way through. Output for day three was a little lacking, only managing a bit over 1000 words, but total output is up to 5530 words. Which means that at the current rate I will make the 50,000 word total with [...]

And we have completed day two of NaNoWriMo. The total word count to date stands at 4433, which is ahead of schedule to hit the 50,000 word mark. Of course there will be days when life gets in the way and you can’t get much or anything done and so a buffer is needed. So [...]

Day One of NaNoWriMo is done. Total output 1759 words. Should have done more, but at least I hit the average needed to make 50,000 words over 30 days. To date I’ve been working on the prologue and chapter three – skipped right over chapter one and two. The reason for that is chapter three [...]

Only a week until NaNoWriMo kicks off. I’ve now got the plan for the novel written up – around 2000 words of plot details and the order it all happens in. Getting excited about getting this done.

NaNoWriMo may still be a few weeks off but I’ve start on making plans for it and am actually having a go at it this year. For it I’m going to have a go at a story that has been floating around in my head for at least ten years and though I’ve always wanted [...]

Dragons are a ubiquitous element of fantasy. They are one of the first things most people would think about when the word fantasy is said to them and it is quicker to list fantasy series without dragons than it is to list those with them in it. Dragons are also rather varied, with many authors [...]

Of late I’ve been making good progress with the rewrite of Tears of the Mountain, averaging two to three thousand words a day. Until last week, when I got sick. Nothing terribly major, just the latest head cold that was going around. Unfortunately it stuffed my head up good and proper so that my brain [...]

Trolls are one of the more interesting mythological and fantasy creatures to play around with, mainly because they are such blank slates. While Elves are Elves (pointy-eared, long-lived, hang out in forests), Dwarves are Dwarves (short, bearded, live underground and dig up stuff), Dragons are Dragons (big, reptilian, flying and fire-breathing), it is not the [...]