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July 2017 Camp NaNo

Saturday, July 1st, 2017

Yep, I’m at it again – Camp NaNoWriMo is a month long writing drive that is a spin off of the main National Novel Writing Month. With camp you tend to choose your own word goals and things. I did the April one where I started working on Tides – which is my main focus […]

Tides – the plan

Monday, April 3rd, 2017

Tides is a series set in the near future where disease, war and global warming have driven people to the waves. Living in floating communities – often with scarce resources they are in perilous balance. The series covers the hardships that shape these communities as they form the seasted nations, including the pirates and mega […]

The Janus Chronicles – the plan

Saturday, April 1st, 2017

The Janus Chronicles document the stories of Jonathan, a programming and technology geek who becomes a powerful business man thanks to buying bitcoins as a bit of a joke as a young man. Unlucky in love, he non-the-less has a big heart and always tries to the best he can. Having a rocky childhood he […]

CampNano and Screnzy

Tuesday, March 28th, 2017

As April approaches it is time for me to start planning my CampNano project. April used to be reserved for Screnzy which was a script writing frenzy along the lines of National Novel Writing Month but they have since just merged it all into the main site and then split it off as a camp. […]

Listening Too to Write

Monday, March 20th, 2017

I like setting a mood when I am writing – finding this collection good for writing too 🙂

Research and Head Injury

Saturday, January 14th, 2017

I am actually recovering from a head injury which has caused me quiet a few problems – some of these include the amount of time and how I read things 🙁 But I am still trying – mainly I have shifted over to listening to podcasts with some documentary watching and a little bit of […]

Fantasy Music

Saturday, January 7th, 2017

I found this 2 hr collection of fantasy music great to write to. It helps me to imagine I am in a film whilst writing 🙂

New Year… er same old story?

Sunday, January 1st, 2017

Another year has passed and I still don’t really have anything finished for The Punk’s Universe other than a few flash fictions and short stories (to be fair there is actually quiet a lot of these which can be read on Magenta Monster under the category The Punk’s World). In 2019 I will have been […]

Nano 2016 week 2

Thursday, November 17th, 2016

Well I was doing really well and then the US elections happened and bam!!! No writing. Reasons for this are multiple. a) I ended up writing lots of political poems, essays and so on and then went and performed them and ended up being swept up in the poetry world again. b) It was pretty […]

Week 1 – NaNo 16

Monday, November 7th, 2016

Week 1 is done and as I have been saying to nanoing friends – I’m finding it hard to work out word counts as some is written in long hand, some is dictated on the phone, some is on blogs and some is in files on the laptop. So unlike previous years I am trying […]