Well, New Year is over and it’s back to the boulder, although I’m having trouble deciding which boulder to push. I’ve got a lot of works in first/second draft that could use a clean up and need to get published, but I’m having a hard time deciding which. This is, unfortunately, a common problem of …
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Cookie Crumbled (Part 2)
Success isn’t final, failure isn’t fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill. Right, let’s bake this biscuit. I’m going to refer to yesterday’s post a lot – don’t worry, I’m not going to dissect it, just bust it up a little to get the choc-chips out. 😊 One thing that struck …
Three Pronged Reproach
Some news from the boulderline! With a little guidance from my editor and valuable feedback from my test readers and the wonderfully eagle-eyed Copyediting and Proofreading by Polly at Magic Pencil, my Middle-Grade Historical Fantasy was polished up enough for me to send it out to three agents looking for that type of work. I’d …
Market Value
I’m pensive due to listening to the excellent Surviving Mars soundtrack, and still turning over the recent experience with the publisher in my head and it has been exceptionally useful to codify my understanding of something I gleaned from David Morrell’s The Successful Novelist, in which he cautions about writing to an existing market, or …
Bouldering.
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. Confucius – all round clever chap. This blog now has 80 Adventurers! Isn’t that something? 🙂 Welcome new travellers, I hope that you find something you like within these unruly mutterings! Thank you to everyone who keeps reading and liking, it’s helping all the time. So what is …
Something Old, Something New.
A new project has started, but it’s not quite my usual subject of sci-fi. It’s a crime-thriller of sorts, calling upon my experience of Government Executive Agencies, which is a hark back to my writing origins of hard men with stern faces (not angels or vampires with dirty faces!) – and I remembered that back …
In Character
I like my heroes to be legal and law-abiding, well, at least 75 percent of the time. My mother Herein is a bit of a ramble on Character. Next to plot, I think, Characters are the most whimsical, do-what-they-like parts of a book. They can be stroppy, uncooperative, bombastic and chewing the furniture at best. …
