My friend George Ivanoff, for his blog Literary Clutter, has asked me to write several hundred words on my first paid publication. My story “Such Is Life” appears in “Dead Red Heart“, a collection of Australian-themed …
Dead Red Heart: Such is Life is published
A short story I wrote, "Such Is Life", has been selected to appear in an anthology titled Dead Red Heart, published by Ticonderoga Publications. Pre-orders are now available via Ticonderoga's online bookstore, indiebooksonline.com.
Research
If I take anything from NaNoWriMo – more on that in a moment – it should be that I should write what I know, at least at this point and especially if writing under such pressure like NaNoWriMo provides. I …
Day 15: The midway point
So I had some interesting dreams last night. I blame the videos I was watching on Youtube, quite late. Anyway, my dreams did help me to answer some troubling questions I’d had about my novel, one of which was the …
Day 14: Almost half way
The last two days I’ve not written a word. I struggle to find a reason beyond just “I can’t be bothered”. Admittedly the first day I was quite tired; but today, beyond it being a Sunday, I have no excuse, …
Day 12: Struggling
While yesterday the words flowed reasonably easily, today… not so much. And I face the second of my two night shifts. My brain is oh so much mush.
I actually went back in my story today, to part where I …
Day 11: Onward and upward
With my brain finally responding to stimuli again, I haven’t quite caught up with the straight line that indicates the words needed every day to make 50,000 before month’s end but I wrote more today than I did the last …
Day 10: A little here, a little there…
I wrote about 800 words, which is about half the daily requirement but better than nothing on a shift day. I’m hoping to catch up over the next few days, when I’m working nights (which means home during the day) …
Day 9: Almost nothing
12 hour shifts are just not conducive to creative writing. Don’t feel up to it. I’ll have to make it up on days off.…
Day 8: All the small things
Lots of little, annoying things happened today that were quite annoying, together adding up to leave me tired and wrung out by the time I got home. My brain had turned to mush. I was surprised thus when I sat …