It’s Almost NaNo Season!

It's almost that time of year again, NaNoWriMo is just around the corner and it's time for the preparation to begin! After several years of failed NaNo's as a panster (someone who doesn't plan before writing) and one year as a successful planner (you can guess that one) I know I need to plan plenty...

My Writing Life: Editing My Book

Today's My Writing Life post is inspired by the last couple days of what I have been doing, creative writing wise. I have been editing my novel and I have made some serious progress for the first time in months. Since December I have been trying to edit and revise my book but I have restarted and...

June Wrap up and A New Quarter!

June is over, we are well into summer! This also means the quarter is over and a new one begins today so with this post I will be wrapping up June and assessing my quarterly goals. What have I done this month? A fair question (I ask myself), June has seen the beginning of yet...

Camp NaNoWriMo – Final Day of Prep

Camp NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow and my prep has not gone very well. If you remember a couple days ago I mentioned a new idea that I wanted to work on for July Camp, however that idea is not well enough prepared to go ahead with. So I will be continuing with my current work in...

Camp NaNoWriMo Starts On Sunday and I Completely Forgot!

Panic stations people! The July Camp NaNoWriMo starts on Sunday and it completely slipped my mind! When I first thought about it a couple weeks ago I was planning on continuing with The Revelation Academy, but now I'm in the mood to write something completely new. So now I have three (and a bit) days to come...

My Writing Life: Designing Settings

For this weeks post on my writing life I have decided to continue with the theme of planning a story and today we are focusing on settings. I'll be using my experience of creating the main setting for my novel The Revelation Academy to give you some tips for creating your own settings. To clarify,...

My Writing Life: Character Plotting in Three Easy Steps

This Friday I will be discussing characters; how I create, design and plot them. I will be using my experience in doing this for my novel The Revelation Academy to describe how I did this particular part of planning. I have also included a couple of recommended resources at the end of this post. Character...

An Interview with Helen Grant

A couple weeks ago I reviewed Ghost by Helen Grant, a thriller novel with a gothic twist. You can read my review here. Today I have the honour of hosting a Q&A with Helen, I asked the questions from a reader and writers point of view, so hopefully they will be of an interest to you.  ...

My Writing Life: Planning and Plotting

When I first got the idea for my current work in progress, The Revelation Academy, I was actually already planning a different novel. For the first idea I was using revision cards to plan out my scenes and where they would sit in the overall story. But for TRA I ended up choosing a different method, I...

Quarterly Goals Update – April-June

So the first quarter of the year has gone rather quick. This post will be looking back on the goals I set myself for this quarter to see how well I did as well as set some to accomplish before July arrives. My goals for this past quarter: Complete a rewrite of the first ten...