Category: Articles
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Defrosting The Thaw: Planning Process
My post-apocalyptic thriller novel The Thaw has had some positive feedback on the third draft from beta-readers, which is really encouraging. Some of the most heartening feedback on this draft has been on the quality of the planning. This surprises me as the planning for The Thaw took me a long time, and looking back…
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Milwordy Thoughts
Recently I wrote about developing healthy writing habits to bring about a positive change in workflow while maintaining productivity. This has been going mostly well for me – I’ve been setting writing goals most weeks and achieving them, though I have been a bit uninspired of late while my novel is being read by beta-readers;…
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Defrosting The Thaw: Surveying Beta Readers
I’m currently in the process of gaining feedback from a selection of beta-readers for my work-in-progress post-apocalyptic thriller novel The Thaw, which is now at draft 3 stage. I’ve had three out of the eight people who have been sent the work respond, and I’ve undertaken a couple of beta-reads myself in that time. First…
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