http://www.writingwords.net/ Writing Words en Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:07:00 GMT Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:07:00 GMT info@writingwords.net info@writingwords.net http://www.writingwords.net/minus16weeks/ I just realized this and thought I'd share. Bit scary, really. 16 weeks - that's not much. I'm nowhere near where I wanted to be with the editing process of... http://www.writingwords.net/minus16weeks/#comments http://www.writingwords.net/minus16weeks/ Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:07:00 GMT http://www.writingwords.net/what-are-your-writing-themes/ This month's NaBloPoMo theme is home. It is a pity that my writing priorities lie elsewhere at the moment, as home has always been a theme close to my heart... http://www.writingwords.net/what-are-your-writing-themes/#comments http://www.writingwords.net/what-are-your-writing-themes/ Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:09:00 GMT http://www.writingwords.net/foo-zeppelin/ I think it took a couple of days to sink in - I watched rock history in the making on Saturday night, I saw (half of) Led Zeppelin play to... http://www.writingwords.net/foo-zeppelin/#comments http://www.writingwords.net/foo-zeppelin/ Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:45:00 GMT http://www.writingwords.net/busy-busy/ Sometimes life is just too much to handle to keep this blog active: Vacation, new challenges at work, a novel to edit, the best band in the world to see... http://www.writingwords.net/busy-busy/#comments http://www.writingwords.net/busy-busy/ Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:34:00 GMT http://www.writingwords.net/why-oh-why-blues/ I've had one of the dreaded "why oh why am I doing this to myself" days. I'm sure every fiction writer has them, even though I hope they'll occur less... http://www.writingwords.net/why-oh-why-blues/#comments http://www.writingwords.net/why-oh-why-blues/ Sun, 18 May 2008 22:03:00 GMT http://www.writingwords.net/ywriter/ A comment I wrote earlier on one of Morgan's posts made me look up a neat tool which will help writers who need to structure their writing to get their... http://www.writingwords.net/ywriter/#comments http://www.writingwords.net/ywriter/ Sat, 17 May 2008 00:49:00 GMT http://www.writingwords.net/editors-block/ I don't believe in writer's block. Sure, I've written myself in many a corner and had to find a way out again. I've also had moments when I would have... http://www.writingwords.net/editors-block/#comments http://www.writingwords.net/editors-block/ Fri, 16 May 2008 01:25:00 GMT http://www.writingwords.net/notes-on-editing-2/ No. 13 of Kerouac's 30 Essentials for Prose is: Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition. I seem to have taken this in whole-heartedly. Punctuation especially is rather experimental at times... http://www.writingwords.net/notes-on-editing-2/#comments http://www.writingwords.net/notes-on-editing-2/ Wed, 14 May 2008 22:29:00 GMT http://www.writingwords.net/notesonediting1/ Turns out it is a lot easier to edit a novel that was planned before writing. My NaNo2007 novel was hardly planned at all, and it shows. There are huge... http://www.writingwords.net/notesonediting1/#comments http://www.writingwords.net/notesonediting1/ Sun, 11 May 2008 01:01:00 GMT http://www.writingwords.net/taking-a-break/ There is lots of advice for aspiring writers - by successfully published writers, by editors and literary agents, and by people such as moi who'd like to join the first... http://www.writingwords.net/taking-a-break/#comments http://www.writingwords.net/taking-a-break/ Sat, 10 May 2008 01:38:00 GMT http://www.writingwords.net/editing-the-monster/ I am good at producing first drafts. I am not quite as good at editing. I went away over the bank holiday weekend, and I only started editing my novel... http://www.writingwords.net/editing-the-monster/#comments http://www.writingwords.net/editing-the-monster/ Thu, 08 May 2008 22:24:00 GMT http://www.writingwords.net/af-wordcount-15051/ Did it! I wrote 15,000 words, I wrote the third part of my novel and I roughly managed 500 words a day. On to the next big project: editing the... http://www.writingwords.net/af-wordcount-15051/#comments http://www.writingwords.net/af-wordcount-15051/ Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:48:00 GMT http://www.writingwords.net/af-wordcount-14180/ The death of my laptop threw me off course for a few days, but I'm back and not willing to give up. Losing my notebook was inconvenient, but all it... http://www.writingwords.net/af-wordcount-14180/#comments http://www.writingwords.net/af-wordcount-14180/ Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:19:00 GMT http://www.writingwords.net/do-you-have-a-backup-plan/ Yes, there has been no wordcount update yesterday, and I'm not sure yet there will be one today. The reason for that is simple: my laptop died yesterday. I'm not... http://www.writingwords.net/do-you-have-a-backup-plan/#comments http://www.writingwords.net/do-you-have-a-backup-plan/ Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:45:00 GMT http://www.writingwords.net/af-wordcount-12525/ Repeat after me: Writing it is the only way of getting it written. Writing it is the only way of getting it written. Writing it is the only way of... http://www.writingwords.net/af-wordcount-12525/#comments http://www.writingwords.net/af-wordcount-12525/ Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:56:00 GMT