About a month back I had a dream. Yeah, sure, nothing remarkable about that. We all have them. Why should we care? Well, this was one of those vivid, weirdly coherent dreams. It kinda made sense at the time, but thinking about it now, it actually didn’t really make a whole lot of sense. Dreams are like that. Read more…
Yeesh, don’t I ever give it a rest?
It seems not.
Well, in the style of all epilogues, I am going to revisit elements of my previous posts. Primarily, editing. Yeah, like I haven’t done that before. Read more…
Despite the minor hiccup I had last week, having to redo the final episode pretty much from scratch, I finally managed to finish this opus this week. And how do I feel? Am I overflowing with a sense of achievement? Satisfaction for having gotten this mammoth under control? Relief? Read more…
OK, this week I was really hoping to put this baby to bed. Bad news is, I couldn’t.
This does have a silver lining though, because it means I have something to write about in this post! Read more…
So, I’m finally nearing the end of this journey, and part of me is glad. Relieved even. The finish line is in sight and once I get across it I can relax.
Or can I?
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So this week I figured I’d talk about word counts. I know its one of the things that most writers won’t really think about in any great detail, but word counts are extremely important. If you write shorter fiction, and have considered submitting your work to any of the number of short story competitions that are run each year (or magazines, for that matter), then word counts become vitally important. Because short stories especially have strict word count limitations. Read more…
So yet again a week has passed and I have failed to live up to my own deadlines. I didn’t get any specific episodes completed. What I did manage to do however, is get a lot of scenes written from the final five episodes I have to write in this series.
Which – in a roundabout way – got me thinking about endurance. Read more…
So for this week’s entry, I’m going to tackle a subject that isn’t about writing. Not the physical process of getting words down anyway. This week I’m going to talk about that ever elusive contract. Read more…
OK, so this week I sucked at my own deadline. I didn’t even get ONE full episode done this week, let alone two! I DID manage to write a few scenes from throughout the series, and also to get my “new, revised” arc down and locked. Go me! Read more…
OK, so I got myself a writing gig. Check me out. All being well, I shall hopefully soon be getting published online. (www.owango.com Check it out yo.) So what I thought I might try is writing a kind of progress diary of how that’s going. Read more…