Written in red sharpie on the back of a dentists reciept while sitting on the bus, so I'd better type it up while I can still vaguely remember what I've written (legability not being my strong point at the best of times...) Always happens the one time I don't have a notepad ( Read more... )

My gosh, I haven't posted a word count for nearly a month! Although Christmas and New Year didn't help much with the actual writing progress. Still, progress is happening, and today I solved... not a major point, but something that had been niggling me. I'm also playing revolving doors with my cast, so at the moment I'm dealing with an Allorise/ ( Read more... )

As LJ keeps insisting on playing dead, I have fallen behind with the crossposting again. Anyone know how to automatically link a Wordpress site to LJ, save me faffing about ( Read more... )

Waking up to the sad news that Anne McCaffrey, the lady who taught dragons to fly and spaceships to sing, has passed away at the age of 85. She was the first woman to win either a Hugo, or a Nebula award, for short stories “Weyr Search” and “Dragonrider” in 1968 and 1969, and it is for her Dragonriders of Pern stories that she is best loved and ( Read more... )

Only one more after this, I think. Thios is a writing-related one, the other one is kinda personal ( Read more... )

POV is the plague of a lot of new writers, and cornerofmadness has an interesting and helpful take on it on her blog, which is over here ( Read more... )

Reposted from http://hierath.wordpress.com/ - you are welcome to comment there or here :) I'm free and easy like that ( Read more... )

Reposted from t'other Blog, but you can also comment here ( Read more... )

... and I should not be awake at six am realising that Carousel's trousers had magically turned into a skirt three pages later. Fi diddly dee, a writers wake-up for me ( Read more... )

It's hard to get reviews. I think it's even harder to get reviews of short story collections. But Colin Harvey has kindly reviewed "The Feline Queen" on his blog and said pleasant things about it ( Read more... )