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

ASUS S200E 11.6-inch VivoBook Touchscreen Laptop (Intel Core i3 3217U 1.8GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, LAN, WLAN, Webcam, BT, Integrated Graphics, Windows 8) Until the Vivobook, I’ve been running Windows XP – primarily because I’ve enjoyed using my netbooks, but also because Vista and Windows 7’s bloat meant that I […]

Asus Vivobook S200E

December 19, 2012 in Reviews / Technology tagged Asus / Gadget / Laptop / S200E / Technology / Vivobook by Jonathan Rudderham

NaNoWriMo2012 draws to a close, and I’ve managed to do 15,000+ words over the target. It’s not the first time I’ve exceeded the NaNo target, but it’s the first time I’ve done it without really knowing where the story was going. As luck would have it, I now know where […]

NaNoWrimo 2012, Day Twenty-Nine

November 29, 2012 in NaNoWriMo / Novelling / Word Count tagged Inspiration / NaNoWriMo / Round The Horne / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

Still managing to hit my daily word count. It’s now time to validate, to “prove” that I’ve written over 50,000 words. My validation tool of choice is to use yWriter‘s “Nanowrimo Obfuscated Text” tool. This is a feature in yWriter that creates a text file of all your words and […]

NaNoWrimo 2012, Day Twenty-Five

November 25, 2012 in NaNoWriMo / Word Count tagged NaNoWriMo / Spacejock Software / wordcount / yWriter by Jonathan Rudderham

I’ve crossed the 50,000 word line. These last few days have been hectic. Life does that sometimes. I’ve only been able to write in very small chunks at the end of the day, just barely squeezing out my daily target. I wasn’t expecting expecting to cross the line tonight. I […]

NaNoWrimo 2012, Day Twenty-Two

November 22, 2012 in NaNoWriMo / Novelling / Word Count tagged NaNoWriMo / Novelling / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

I don’t know where I’m finding the time from or, indeed, the words, but I’ve just limped across the line to 30,000 words. That puts me about five days ahead of schedule now. As far as the story is concerned, certain aspects of it are starting to decide what they […]

NaNoWriMo 2012, Day Thirteen

November 13, 2012 in NaNoWriMo / Novelling / Word Count / Writing tagged NaNoWriMo / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

Somehow I managed over 4,000 words today. Don’t ask me how. I guess I should be thankful to Rebecca for, just this once, playing the team game and getting involved in the story. I think she’s been taking lessons from some of my secondary characters of recent stories. I’m aiming […]

NaNoWriMo 2012, Day Eleven

November 12, 2012 in NaNoWriMo / Novelling / Word Count tagged characters / NaNoWriMo / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

Okay, maybe I could have done several thousand words today and got myself to the half-way point but, foolishly, I decided to do a 16 mile walk instead. It didn’t exactly get the creativity flowing, but I’m sure it’s done wonders for my recent lack of exercise. I have managed […]

NaNoWriMo 2012, Day Nine

November 10, 2012 in NaNoWriMo / Word Count tagged NaNoWriMo / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

Light At The End…

A random collection of thoughts