I thought I would try dividing the book up into sections and then building it up from those sections and hopefully watch the story snowball to completion! So I started by deciding that it is divided into three section then I split those sections into number of chapters and rough length/size of those chapters. I […]
I always do a little extra nano challenge – this is GothNoWriMo which is a challenge to write gothic lit in a month. I stretched the meaning of Goth slightly and went with alternative instead. Because I tend to write trilogies or books in 3 parts, I start new series within the Punk’s Universe every […]
The Blue Lotus will be the novel I’ll be working on in October for GothNoWriMo which is a kind of unofficial spin off of NaNoWriMo but has a thing where you decided on your own goal between 30-70, 000 words for the month. The Blue Lotus is the forth in the Zombie Quintette series of […]
This is the planning notebook and within it are plans! I started by thinking about which of the many story ideas I should run with – I knew the story would be Punk Universe based as my nano projects always are! But I wasn’t sure what within that universe it would be. Having suffered a […]
It is September and that is the month I attempt to plan my nano in these days – this is mainly because I do a kind of double writing challenge. They started off as separate things but as I have progressed with writing the Punk’s Universe using the writing challenges it has become something a […]
Stimulating music – wrote some good scenes to this – I like finding the vids and just writing for the duration of the music!
Looking at the volume of the first Punk novels I am starting to think I need to split them out – they were written with chapters alternatively in the past and future. I really like this style of chapters which I first came across as a teen reading The Eight, but the book lengths are […]
The stories set in the Punk’s World/Universe are so epic now that I have had to cave in and pint it out. I thought I’d share with you the first 100, 000 words of The Punk In Pink. I will be organising it all with the help of arch-lever files and sticky tabs in various […]
So it is just gone midnight and now is the time to begin – so of course I decided that writing a blog post about the fact I am not yet writing would be the thing to do! I’ve decided to kind of mix it all up so for instance I will spend tonight writing […]
So I’ve been having trouble drawing the Punk for the front cover – I know what position she should be in and stuff but I just couldn’t work it out to draw it. None of my drawing books had the pose so I tried to get my little girl to pose for me but she […]