Blood, Sweat and Foiled

Just a quick update from me today. I’m hitting Rebellion of Mars really hard, but getting nowhere fast. It’s pushing the boulder uphill because it has to be re-written almost completely. I’ve changed the character motivations, made things a bit more proactive and have some ideas how to heighten tension, but I’m not sure it’s …

All Change

Tides of Azhov was progressing well, but I hate it. It’s into two chapters now, (about 7,000 words – which is about 1166 fathoms, but I digress) but only the first chapter is any good and I am not sure if I’ve managed to capture the character of our Protagonist yet. I just can’t inject …

A Dead Zone

“I’m sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting the typewriter into a bar of steel and clubbing yourself to death with it.” – Richard Matheson And here it is. That period where I want to get on with something, …