Too little time in the day, but at least the words are flowing a little better now. I only seem to be able to find the last hour of the day in which to get anything written. When the words don’t want to play, the target is difficult to achieve. […]
The first few days have been a bit of a struggle. No time and no real idea how the story is going to hang together. The last couple of thousand words came a little easier, though. Just give someone a little hardship and now I’m a day in front. Yay! […]
NaNoWriMo 2012, Day Six
1,056 in the first hour of NaNoWriMo. Only 48,944 to go. Those Who Would Die begins as expected with the robbery. The first scene concentrates on introducing the two newest characters while reintroducing Sebastian. This segment is his story from several years ago. I think I’ve been watching too much […]
NaNoWriMo 2012, Day One
Okay, so I don’t really have the time for NaNoWriMo this year, but I’m going to attempt it anyway. It’s been one of those years in which very little has gone the way it should, maybe I can at least get “the words” to cooperate just this once. I should […]
NaNoWriMo 2012
Thanks to YouTube, I’ve finally had the opportunity to see an episode of the BBC Sherlock Holmes series starring Douglas Wilmer. Wilmer was later replaced by Peter Cushing (episodes I’ve already seen), but it has been difficult to see the Wilmer episodes. Most of them have been lost over the […]
The Six Napoleons
I’ve just stumbled across another version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, this time starring Stewart Granger as Sherlock Holmes and Bernard Fox as Watson. Yes, it also stars William Shatner as Stapleton together with Anthony Zerbe as Mortimer. The main positive is the set design. It’s very atmospheric and […]
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972)
In my seemingly never-ending quest to write on my iPad, I recently began investigating Storyist for iPad. There are many text document apps for the iPad and my favourite “quick writing” app has been Writings. That offers a pleasing but basic interface and is able to keep documents together (such […]
Novelling on my iPad
It may only be March, but it’s already time to start thinking about this year’s NaNoWriMo. Between then and now, I must get the first draft of The Three Deaths of Piper Gwyn finished. I have a number of ideas for this year’s NaNoWriMo but, with this book currently stretching […]
It’ll soon be November
Over three thousand words just to walk through a cave? Surely not. That must have been a very interesting cave. Yesterday’s wordcount increased the story by 3,429 words, with the total now running at 178,318 words. It’s odd how you think of the story in your mind, and the words […]
When the weekend doesn’t end the week
How to add 2,000 words to a scene in one easy step – – throw a character to the lions. So there I am, struggling with a simple scene of getting a character from ‘A’ to ‘B’. It’s a necessary scene. He needs to get there, and we need to […]
Fancy meeting you in a place like this…
Still on the path, but only another thousand or so words today. The build-up to the final action scene begins. Trying to tie up a couple of loose ends while keeping the pace up is proving a little tricky, but it seems to be working out. Total wordcount actually runs […]
Another 1,013 Words…
In another episode that pushes the boundaries of Superbooy further away from its original “High School” premise, Meet Mr. Mxyzptlk takes a leaf out of the comic books to introduce one of Superman’s colourful enemies. A remarkably accurate piece of casting sees Michael J Pollard as the eponymous mischievous imp […]
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