National Novel Writing Month is over for another year. This year I became a 'Nano rebel' - choosing to review and edit a previous novel. I think I made some significant improvement to the story and managed to edit 58k words - with around 40k of that being complete rewrites of scenes! Another 30k will …
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Stolen butterflies, charismatic ski-jumpers and NaNoWriMo 2019
It's that time of the year again lovelies! I'm going to be editing my novel from last year as I've had several requests for full manuscript submissions and it needs work! It's had a title change - but not much else. I had intended on writing a new manuscript - based on this chappie: Colin …
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A new beginning – 2019
I realised that I haven't updated this blog a while and probably it was about time to fill you in on all writerly things that are happening in my life. Mostly all good! It's been a tumultuous six months! I guess the number one thing is that I now have a permanent job. Writing and …
The hard yards – editing
It's true what they say, write drunk edit sober. However I never expected that the editing process would be so sobering in itself. Despite that, I've enjoyed the process, having wonderful critique partners and an editor who knows you and your strength and weaknesses is a godsend. I've learnt so much in such a short …
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