Tag: workflow
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Looking Back On NaNoWriMo
This time five years ago I was halfway through my inaugural attempt at NaNoWriMo, and halfway through writing my first ever novel-length writing project. It was the culmination of a few weeks of late-night planning of something great, and ultimately what I would say is the first big “event” that signposted my taking “this writing…
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FutureLearn: Fiction Course participation
On the behest of my good friend Gary I’ve signed up for FutureLearn’s “Start Writing Fiction” course. This is an online-based course that aims to help people get writing, with a focus on the central skill of creating characters. This seems a great idea; often in my work I feel my characterisation is my weakest…
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Discoveries about Editing
I’ve recently been throwing myself headlong into editing the second edition of Colonisation and in the course of this undertaking had a bit of a writer’s epiphany. Before I go on, this is how Colonisation looks right now on my desk: Editing my book by hand, with a red pen and a printed copy has…
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