Yearly archives: 2013

It’s been a little over ten days since NaNoWriMo 2013 ended and it’s now time to put some thought into the ramshackle mess of words that came out of the month. One of my weakest areas of writing, and one that’s even weaker during NaNoWriMo, is character development. The answer […]

Character profiles

December 13, 2013 in Character Building / NaNoWriMo / Software / Writing tagged characters / NaNoWriMo / Scrivener / Templates by Jonathan Rudderham

Day +1, word count: 75,053, target: 50,000 It’s December 1st. NaNoWriMo is officially over. One of the negative things that comes about in November is the occasional article that attempts to dismiss all things NaNoWriMo as just a bunch of people believing they’re bestselling authors based on jotting down random […]

NaNoWriMo 2013, T plus 1 day

December 1, 2013 in NaNoWriMo tagged NaNoWriMo by Jonathan Rudderham

Day 25, word count: 65,688, target: 41,667 Since hitting 50,000 words on the 17th, I’ve been determined to continue writing every day of November – my goal here is to hit at least the minimum NaNoWriMo target of 1,667 words every day until the end of the month. Purpose? To […]

NaNoWriMo 2013, Day 25

November 25, 2013 in Character Building / NaNoWriMo / Novelling / Word Count tagged characters / NaNoWriMo / novel writing / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

I know NaNoWriMo is the National Novel Writing Month – “National Novel Writing Seventeen Days” wouldn’t fit on the merchandise – but I’ve just exceeded the 50K target words in a little over half the month. It’s all about finding time to write where you can, having the determination to […]

NaNoWriMo in 17 days

November 17, 2013 in NaNoWriMo / Word Count tagged characters / NaNoWriMo / novel writing / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

NaNoWriMo started slowly for me this year, but I did hit my daily word count on the first day. Yesterday, I surpassed that by getting over 5,000 words written. And on the third day there was life … I mean, 10,508 words. It seemed right to use this year’s NaNoWriMo […]

NaNoWriMo 2013, Day 3.

November 3, 2013 in NaNoWriMo / Word Count tagged characters / NaNoWriMo / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

I received the physical set of The Light at the End yesterday. This is the “deluxe CD” presentation. It consists of two parts – a solid outer sleeve and an inner hardback book. Together they’re a little larger than a DVD case but would fit on your shelf of trade […]

The Light at The End, Deluxe CD

October 27, 2013 in Big Finish Audios / Doctor Who / Reviews tagged Big Finish / Colin Baker / Deluxe / Doctor Who / Geoffrey Beevers / India Fisher / Louise Jameson / Nicola Bryant / Paul McGann / Peter Davison / Sarah Sutton / Sophie Aldred / Sylvester McCoy / The Light at the End / The Master / The Revenants / Tom Baker / William Russell by Jonathan Rudderham

The Light at the End encouraged me to seek out Big Finish’s first multi-Doctor story from way back in 1999 and I began listening to the first part of The Sirens of Time last night to see how it compares to their latest multi-Doctor adventure. The following review may contain […]

1. The Sirens of Time

October 25, 2013 in Big Finish Audios / Big Finish Main Range / Doctor Who / Reviews tagged Big Finish / Colin Baker / Doctor Who / Maggie Stables / Nicholas Briggs / Peter Davison / Sylvester McCoy / The Sirens of Time by Jonathan Rudderham

The Light at The End

October 24, 2013 in Big Finish Audios / Doctor Who / Reviews tagged Big Finish / Colin Baker / Doctor Who / Geoffrey Beevers / India Fisher / Louise Jameson / Nicola Bryant / Paul McGann / Peter Davison / Sarah Sutton / Sophie Aldred / Sylvester McCoy / The Light at the End / The Master / The Revenants / Tom Baker / William Russell by Jonathan Rudderham

In preparation for this year’s NaNoWriMo, I stumbled across Aeon Timeline – a handy piece of software that encourages both freedom and detail in your writing. It’s sometimes difficult to write in a linear timeline (one event following the next) because my thoughts are invariably looking ahead to a scene […]

Time for a Line

October 23, 2013 in NaNoWriMo / Software tagged Aeon Timeline / NaNoWriMo / novel writing by Jonathan Rudderham

Every year I say I haven’t got time to do it. Yet, every year I put myself through it. Instead of planning the story, I spend all of October looking through various different tools and software to help in the writing. And then November starts, and I panic. I write […]

NaNoWriMo 2013

October 16, 2013 in NaNoWriMo tagged NaNoWriMo by Jonathan Rudderham

Becoming a little disillusioned as I am with the BBC’s feeble efforts at celebrating Doctor Who‘s 50th Anniversary this year, I’ve been tempted to spend some time browsing the Big Finish catalogue of audios. My present budget restricts my selection to the most affordable releases only, but there are a […]

Voyage to Venus

June 10, 2013 in Big Finish Audios / Doctor Who / Jago & Litefoot / Reviews tagged Big Finish / Christopher Benjamin / Colin Baker / Doctor Who / Henry Gordon Jago / Jago & Litefoot / Jonathan Morris / Professor George Litefoot / Trevor Baxter / Voyage to Venus by Jonathan Rudderham

I’m in that grey murky world of words floating around my head teasing me, each one enticing me with the promise of a story, yet none with the conviction to splurge out all over the keyboard. It’s very annoying. Right now, I have three (okay, maybe four), works on the […]

I don’t like hunting the story…

January 20, 2013 in Novelling / Writing tagged Inspiration / Novelling by Jonathan Rudderham

Light At The End…

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