Time To Get Moving?

Happy Day 27 ! Yes, the end of January looms - almost 1/14th of 2013 already gone, and what have you done so far? This means that there are, at time of writing, only 338 days left until next Christmas. (Yay!) And those are "real" days, not shopping days! So if you have not yet started that …

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A Beginner’s Tale #2

So it's 2012 and I am trying to write a novel, despite characters seeking independence, stories inflating to epic proportions and the looming specter of SF's accursed "infodump". How to keep it lean and clean but coherent and credible? With a bound, our aspiring author was free! (New readers go back and start here) Solution …

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A Beginner’s Tale #1

At time of writing, my Book Summaries page indicates that I am working on two books at once. But it's much worse than that. Grab a coffee, pull up a chair and listen to the salutary tale of a beginner... In late 2011, I had sold my consultancy and was looking forward to a retirement of …

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WIP the New Year

ALERT:  Sit well back from your screen while reading this. With the onset of the New Year (woot! woot! streamers & champagne), I had wanted to try something new, blogistically speaking. It would have been an occasional series of very brief blogs on my "Work In Progress" (WIP) and the fun associated with being a struggling …

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