Archive for the ‘Novel In Progress’ Category
NaNoWriMo
I know I bang on about NaNoWriMo and its summer offerings in Camp NaNo, but I’m going to do it again. Today is the N day and it seemed an appropriate time to bang this drum again. I’m sure you know all about the National Novel Writing Month. You have to write 50,000 words in […]
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Tags: A to Z Challenge, CAMP NANO, National Novel Writing Month, Natural History Museum, photography, Reading, Writer Resources, Writing
Blood Analysis
Okay. Now that A is history and those pesky ADVERBS are under control, on to the letter B. I’m a crime-fiction writer. One of my WIPs is a police procedural and the other WIP is a crime novel. There will be blood! One of the courses I studied with the Open University was on Forensic […]
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Tags: A to Z Challenge, Bloodstain pattern analysis, cats, Crime Writing, Forensic science, Open University, photography, Reading, Writing
Camp NaNo, starting soon
No, I’m not taking part in the A to Z Blogging Challenge AND Camp NaNo in the same month. I’m MAD, but not stupid. No, I’m not stupid. My first experience of NaNoWriMo in any of its forms happened in the August edition of Camp NaNo last year. I was a Happy Camper when I […]
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Tags: CAMP NANO, National Novel Writing Month, Writers Resources, Writing
Today is my birthday! I had a nice day. We drove out into Derbyshire to see some countryside and stopped off at the Moorlands pub on the way, which is a fabulous place to eat a carvery. I LOVE a roast dinner so an easy choice to make about where to eat on my birthday. […]
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Tags: 4th March, Kenny Dalglish, Landon Donovan, Patricia Heaton, Patsy Kensit, Stacy Edwards, Tamzin Merchant, Tim Vine, Writing
I’ve been tagged for the The Next Big Thing Blog Hop. Again. The post for my response for A Scream In The Woods is here. H. Conrad Miller over at A Side of Writing has nominated me this time and fortunately, I have another WIP to talk about. For those of you not familiar with this Blog […]
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Tags: Blog Hop, Mark Billingham, Reading, Robbie Coltrane, Sheffield, Writing
When I started writing I Can See You there was only the one story planned. At the time, no sequel immediately sprang to mind. To be honest, I when I started writing this book back in 2005, I would’ve been delighted just to know that I would actually finish the first draft. The same applied to […]
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Tags: Books, Fiction, Reading, Sequel, the Hunger Games, trilogies, Writing
Let it stop
Okay snow. Had enough now Yesterday, the signs were good. The melt began and every time I glanced out of the window, I saw more and more tarmac and garden. This morning, when I peeked out of the window we had a LOT more snow. Five inches, or about 12cm depending on your preference, fell […]
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Tags: editing, morrisons, photography, Sheffield, shopping, Snow, winter, Writing
Dropbox – Get with the times
Now that I’ve started doing another draft, I’m back into an OCD need to save my work. Back in the early Nineties when I was writing my third novel, I spent an entire day writing. I wrote 20 pages of what I thought was some pretty good stuff and my old Amstrad PCW9512 Wordprocessor collapsed […]
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Tags: back up your work, Cloud storage, cloudstorage, Dropbox, Nineties, Reading, Scrivener, Word Processors, Writing
Yet more drafting
Happy New Year! I hope you’re all well and enjoying the first few days of 2013. When I finished Camp NaNo and the first draft of A Scream In The Woods, I intended having a short break and then jumping head first into the next draft of my Crime Novel. The one I’ve been writing since 1954. […]
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Tags: Lower Slaughter, Reading, Sandsend, Scrivener, Whitby, Writing
