Archive for June, 2012
June 12 – Update
June is HISTORY and we are ALREADY half-way through 2012. This year is flying like nobody’s business. We had two weeks off work this month so the weather turned and the sunshine was replaced with rain and threatening looking clouds. We’re used to it. The number of times we’ve had leave from work and the weather […]
Filed under: Novel In Progress, Reading, Writing | 23 Comments
Tags: Cleethorpes, Kedleston Hall, Migraine, Reading, Writers Resources, Writing
Back in October I started the second draft of my (still untitled) British crime novel. I wanted to put the skills I’d honed during the 2 and a half years spent studying creative writing into action. At 22:00 yesterday, I typed the final words of the epilogue. RE-WRITE COMPLETE! YAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY! This month I’ve worked my way […]
Filed under: Novel In Progress, Writing | 40 Comments
Tags: Cleethorpes, Creative writing, Writers Resources, Writing, Writing and Editing
Format: Kindle Edition File Size: 603 KB Print Length: 455 pages Page Numbers Source ISBN: 01407109375 Publisher: Scholastic Fiction; 1 edition (3 May 2011) Sold by: Amazon, Amazon UK Language English Text-to-Speech: Enabled Overview Can Katniss Everdeen win the final fight against the Capitol? Against all odds, she’s survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she’s made it out of the bloody […]
Filed under: E-Book, Reading, Recommended Books | 6 Comments
Tags: e-books, Hunger Games Trilogy, Katniss Everdeen, Kindle, Mockingjay, Reading
Read a book twice?
I have a confession to make. I’ve never read the same book twice. My favourite films I can watch time and time again. I’ve seen The Shawshank Redemption at least six times, Pulp Fiction about the same. I don’t know how many times I’ve watched Star Trek or Star Wars films – sci-fi geek, sci-fi geek […]
Filed under: Reading, Recommended Books | 51 Comments
Tags: Books, Camel Club, David Baldacci, Dexter, Jeff Lindsay, Mark Billingham, Pulp Fiction, Reading, Shawshank Redemption, West Wing
