Back in November 2008, I finished writing my first novel. I already had two unfinished novels to my name, but I have to give some credit to NaNoWriMo for impelling me to actually get to ‘The End’ – without the daily ‘deadlines’ required to make the minimum 50,000 words by the beginning of December, I […]
Writing Tips
Here be gems of genius!
Every now and then, I like to share posts on other blogs with you – posts that I’ve found interesting, fun or useful, and that I hope might be of some interest or use to you, too. So let’s kick off proceedings, shall we? First off, go and check out the Chinese Whisperings website. If […]
Give yourself permission to NOT write
I’ve just spent a very enjoyable evening doing nothing but knitting a sock, and watching the first three episodes of Castle. Now, most evenings, I make myself sit down and do some ‘work’. It might be drawing, or working out some more ‘punchlines’ for my forthcoming comic, or it might be working on the next […]
Amid the noise and haste, go I
The New Author has posted an interesting entry about the types of environment in which writers write best, and it got me thinking about my own creative process. Indeed, my very good friend Thomas D. Szewc asked me a very similar question over on my Formspring a couple of weeks ago. I’ve always been the kind […]
Why A Netbook Makes Me More Productive
Way back in April, I posted a snippet of my handwritten scrawl, lamenting the reliance of a lot of writers on technology. Well, I’m about to do a complete U-turn and announce that this entry was written on a Netbook, while I enjoyed a mocha and a chocolate muffin in a particular coffee store that […]
Is writing really worth the trouble?
I apologise for the recent lapse in blogging – aside from my Friday Flashes and my foray into vlogging, I simply haven’t been posting as much as I would like. Allow me to rectify this forthwith by having a little discussion about publishing. This is a writer’s blog, after all! Well this evening, I came […]
