
Welcome to my online daily diary
A beginner's walk through a writing career, please join me in my journey into the unknown land of writing.
Here you will find my daily ramblings and other things to keep you interested.
Enjoy your stay.
Please take a peek at my archived posts...
Barry – Completed – Re-editing
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| 69,669 / 70,000 (99.5%) |
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| 50,315 / 70,000 (71.9%) |
Mirror Girl
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| 18,193 / 70,000 (26.0%) |
Emily
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| 10,142 / 70,000 (14.5%) |
The Alphabet Man – Completed 50k goal – Re-writing new goal 70k
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| 58,346 / 70,000 (83.4%) |
The Hell Of War – On hold
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| 9,999 / 70,000 (14.3%) |
I dunno... think I could be on a high... could be a low... no, it's deffo a high... I think...
As if that's ever gonna change!
An American Haunting... okay, so it wasn't that scary, and I did get a wee bit bored, but the storyline was decent...Hello there, I'm back. After several months of health problems, I've finally managed to get back into the swing of things. My writing has suffered over these months, but I'm determined to get back at it.
Where to start, I have no idea! I'll have to read through my journal and see where I was... I dread to think how much I need to catch up on. For now I have a few announcements to make... will do those in a separate post though.
Brief update. A while ago I mentioned that a publisher was looking at my first novel, Barry... well, my novel was long-listed... but didn't make the cut. Never mind, I'm re-editing the novel and I plan to send it back out as soon as I can. Before you ask, I'm not disappointed... I'm well chuffed that the publishers actually asked to read the full novel. Maybe it was too gross for them... maybe I overdone the bad language... who knows, but there's no way I'm giving up on it.
I've started a new novel, Mirror Girl. I've been posting these chapters on UKAuthors - they still need a good edit though. A group of us on UKA has decided to Write A Novel In A Year (WANIAY), this started at the beginning of September, we set our own goal, mine is 70k, which means I must write 5,800 words per month to achieve this. I'm glad to say I've reached this months target.
I've just thought, I need to update my novel lengths above... will get onto that soon.
From the first of October I'll be starting another novel, this one I'm writing through NAY. This one is taken from a short story I had written. I'm not sure where to start yet... I'll worry about that next month.
And erm... I'm signed up to NANO too... write a novel in a month, well reach 50k words in a month... I don't have a clue what I'm doing for this one though.
So, that's three novels planned. Short story wise, I'm hoping to get time to edit some old ones and send them off to some mags... otherwise I'll be writing at least one new one per month as part of the Targeting thread on The Grail forum. Oh yeah, I'm also doing a flash-a-thon in a fortnight... will post more details soon.
And here was me saying I'm gonna take things slowly... and I've got two writers magazines to work on...
But at least the kids are back to school! So yippee!
Catch you all laters.