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4,300 words this week so far. obviously, I won’t be taking the whole weekend off this time – I need to do at least 1 more writing session to bring it up to the target 5k. At this stage, with the words flowing, I’m tempted to do a couple of sessions and try to getContinue reading “100 Days to write a novel: Week Two”

OK slightly less than a week really. But I did say I’d blog on Fridays… 5 days in and the wordcount is a little over 10,000 words. That sounds a lot but it’s worth pointing out that the beginning of the novel is the most well worked out part – with clear notes and evenContinue reading “100 days to write a novel: Week 1”

OK this is it people. This is me seeking to be held responsible and to stop procrastinating. I’m going to do a 100 day novel writing plan. Why 100 days? Well a good draft can be written in 3 months and an extra few days for contingencies for rounding it up… I’m going to startContinue reading “100 days to write a novel?”

First of all – if you are a writer and you’re not following Gareth on Twitter get on over there right now and tick that follow box. Gareth is very generous with his time on Twitter and often does AMA’s and opens his feed to help writers. I’ll wait… As I posted here I’m kinda addictedContinue reading “Review: About Writing by Gareth L Powell”

I am briefly popping in to say that I’m generally pretty busy at the moment with the day job, editing Forgotten Sidekicks, reading a ton of background so the interviews at Cymera go well and progressing with Certainty of Dust (I’ve mailed a new synopsis to my editor last week and got a thumbs upContinue reading “Why so quiet?”

So far I’ve signed up to do a few events, with more cropping up throughout the year . Penned Up – March 20th. This is a literary event inside a prison, which is intriguing. SFW X Part 1 – March 29-30th. I’m on the programme being interviewed, talking about genre and doing a signing CymeraContinue reading “Events”

Pandora opened her box and let out all the evils that afflict mankind and the last thing left inside the box was hope. Hope – a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen Hope can be a cruel master and something all writers must struggle with. You hope your writing isContinue reading “The last evil is hope”

  So my story “Masks,” from The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors volume 1 has been chosen by Ellen Datlow for The best Horror of the Year volume 11 which I’m blown away by. It’s like going to a party and being surrounded by beautiful, famous people and wondering why you’re there, why you were invited. I meanContinue reading “Success and Failure”

In June i’ll be in Edinburgh for the inaugral Cymera festival where I’ll be interviewing Richard Morgan about his new book and also Anna Stephens and Cameron Johnston It looks like a great festival and they’re doing a writing competition with Shoreline of Infinity which is a great opportunity for new writers to get noticed.    

So this week I’ve mostly been busy doing a blog tour which included some extracts, and interview and a couole of reviews: PainPals here Ramblings of a writer here I also had a #smallpressbighstories review over on Fantasy Faction