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 […]
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
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
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…
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Averaging just over 2,000 words a day at the moment so I’m managing to keep almost two days ahead of schedule. Today’s 2,009 words were helped in no small way by writing over 700 words on my Android phone. I’m using Textmaker, part of the Softmaker Office for Android – […]
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