After nailing another chapter down this week, and keeping things rolling, I'm taking a few days break with other projects, just to keep every pot on my stove merrily boilling away. I feel like I'm a bit more than a quarter into my book. Which is an odd achievement. It is, at this moment, inclusive… Continue reading Workblog for the week: One more chapter down.
Tag: The Pirate’s Beard / Brocade Goat
Workblog for the week: Worked this week.
So, after quite some time, I've managed to actually work for a whole week on my novel. I suspect this marks an official end to the sabbatical. We shall keep our fingers crossed. In the intervening time I have finished off another chapter of the Brocade Goat, so the sabbatical wasn't all laziness and non-productiveness,… Continue reading Workblog for the week: Worked this week.
Workblog for the week: Notable.
So, apparently, making notes is helpful. How do I know this? I have gone so far as to add 'made notes' to my work records two days in a row. And it has been helpful. What my technique seems to be, and it's rather astonishing to me that I am developing a technique, is to… Continue reading Workblog for the week: Notable.
Workblog for the week: Solid.
So, for the first time in awhile, I'm more or less edging back onto my schedule, and have been working on my novel all week. Which, let me say, makes me ridiculously happy, even if progress is slow. Sometimes writer's block is something you need to edge out of your way bit by bit, rather… Continue reading Workblog for the week: Solid.
Workblog for the week: Awards! Plague! Censorship!
Okay. Awards, plague, and censorship are a lot to get through. Let's start on the easy stuff, how my work's been going this week. Still have very little faith in myself, but the faith of others has done a bang-up job of keeping me afloat. And, more to the point, towards a reasonable wordcount this… Continue reading Workblog for the week: Awards! Plague! Censorship!
Workblog for the week: The long and short of it.
Very little to report this week. There is some potentially very fun stuff on the horizon, although that can't be spoken of just yet, but it does involve thylacines. Also it's been snowing this week in London - very rare event, all things taken into inclusion, and so I've been staring at the snow a… Continue reading Workblog for the week: The long and short of it.
Workblog for the week: Dangerous Jade for sale!
Another week with comparatively little to report. I got some writing done on my novel, the Pirate's Beard, and had a bit of computer upheaval, and, OH MAN, IS DANGEROUS JADE LEGITIMATELY ON SALE NOW? YES IT IS. (According to the thing about the dates. The site will hopefully be updated soon.) Also someone reviewed… Continue reading Workblog for the week: Dangerous Jade for sale!
Workblog for the week: Lazy List
On our plate this week, we discover: The first review for Dangerous Jade, although it has spoilers. (You're safe if you've already read the first chapter's preview, however.) They had pretty nifty steam engines in 1750, however I will be branded a steampunk for including just one in my novel. I have finished off my… Continue reading Workblog for the week: Lazy List
Workblog for the week: FC? Oooh! Buy my stuff!
This is a brief Workblog for the week. I got some work done on the Brocade Goat, I got some work done on the Troy/Jen stuff I mentioned, but mainly? Mainly this weekend is Further Confusion, and people are (apparently) buying my novella, Dangerous Jade, right this moment! (Well. ... Around now, anyway.) Terribly exciting.… Continue reading Workblog for the week: FC? Oooh! Buy my stuff!
Workblog for the year: 2011
This year I have achieved the following: I have started, written, editted, finished, and submitted for consideration, five short stories and one comic script. (The short stories have been bouncing around various markets all year, too! And some extremely rewarding positive noises/near misses, but no sales.) I have started, written, editted, finished, and submitted for… Continue reading Workblog for the year: 2011
Cheerblog for the holidays: Ho ho ho!
A happy holiday period to you all. This week has seen some noodling about with comic scripts on livestream, and also finally getting a toehold back in the treacherous climb toward writing the Pirate's Beard/Brocade Goat manuscript. (Which, amusingly, was a scene following the treacherous climb of one of the protagonists up a collossal hot… Continue reading Cheerblog for the holidays: Ho ho ho!
Workblog for the week: Blowing hot air.
So much of my week's been spent defeating writer's block, and it's been fairly successful - not the greatest week of writing, but far better than previously, and I finished a new scene which those I have shown it to, in order to gather positive reinforcement, have claimed to enjoy. Much of this involves a… Continue reading Workblog for the week: Blowing hot air.
Workblog for the week: Writer’s Block!
It wasn't Skyrim. I swear. So, yes. I think this might be one of those 'normal for novelist' things that I have yet to get much of, given that most of my works hover under the 20 000 word mark, but I found myself losing all faith in what I was writing. Plot's too slow,… Continue reading Workblog for the week: Writer’s Block!
Workblog for the week, uhm, Skyrim much?
Amazing how these weeks stack up. This weekend, I've started playing Skyrim. So next week's workblog might... be a little thin. As it is, this week's been filled with thrills and excitement. Dangerous Jade, my novella, is looking on track for the moment, and developments relating to the art for that's been absolutely thrilling. More… Continue reading Workblog for the week, uhm, Skyrim much?
Workblog for the week, part the third.
Another week, another blog totting up my work for the week. Frankly, been a lousy week for me. Consistently been getting started late. But, also consistently been getting work in on the novel, so it's not all bad. (I could blame the character I'm writing - I switched viewpoint characters around the start of the… Continue reading Workblog for the week, part the third.
Workblog for the Week, again.
So! News for the week. Biggest news is undoubtedly that my cupcake novella, Dangerous Jade, has reached release-candidate draft status and is now undergoing proofing. I can tell you about that. What I can't tell you about, just yet, is that the artist lined up to do the cover and interior illustrations has a name… Continue reading Workblog for the Week, again.
Workblog for the week
So. The Terry Pratchett thing is, of course, my big news that many people will care about, but the news a few people will care about - the progress on my novel project - is pretty good too. This week's been a comparatively short one, in that it only started on Wednesday, but so far… Continue reading Workblog for the week