by Mel | Nov 2, 2010 | Writing
Another month has zoomed by and quite frankly, I’m more than happy to see the back of October which was not the best month ever in Mel land. Hopefully November will be onwards and upwards. I’m learning to spin on a spinning wheel this month and am trying...
by Mel | Oct 17, 2010 | Writing
We’re hunting edits. We’re very close to our prey…the completed submission draft. Normal blogging activity shall resume shortly!
by Mel | Oct 10, 2010 | Writing
So how does one polish a manuscript? That’s going to be different for every writer but this is how I do it. I’m a pantser so my drafts go something like this. Draft 1. Way too short and messy but gets the bones of the story down. Draft 2. Takes those...
by Mel | Oct 9, 2010 | Writing
It’s a book, it’s a book! All 100,000 odd words of it. Sure, I need to do a final polishing pass, and god knows how coherent the forty odd pages I wrote today are, but the hard bit is done for now. I have written my first book under contract and (touch...
by Mel | Oct 7, 2010 | Writing
Okay world, I am having a night off tonight but tomorrow am attempting a three day deathmarch to finish this draft of Book 2. One of us will emerge victorious! see more Lolcats and funny pictures I shall report my progress. I shall attempt to do this without eating...
by Mel | Oct 5, 2010 | Writing
Once again, sorry for this being late. Sometimes life happens and in the last week there have been dinners with friends, a hens night with the obligatory male revue, a wedding, day job, family members breaking bits of themselves and various other diversions. But we...
