novel writing

After what seems an interminably long length of time, I’ve finally rediscovered the writing “bug”. It turns out that I have a couple of connected stories, written some years ago, which are just waiting for some real hard editing and finishing up. Of course, that means first proscratinating a lot […]

Time for a Word(s)

October 20, 2024 in Books / Covers / Personal tagged Adobe / Affinity / img2go / novel writing by Jonathan Rudderham

As a writer/budding author, we know how useful Scrivener is for keeping our projects in order and structuring our work. It’s available for Mac OSX and, in a slightly less feature-rich version, for Windows. It might even be possible to run it on Linux. The perennial bugbear of Scrivener (and, […]

Scrivener on the road

August 2, 2014 in Hardware / Mobile / Software tagged Mobile Computing / novel writing / Scrivener by Jonathan Rudderham

At first glance, the catchily-named A10JQ would seem to be the ultimate mobile writer’s tool from the past. In the days when 5″ smartphones were hideously expensive and tablets hadn’t yet become mainstream, the humble little A10JQ came onto the market. Originally called the “Mobile Internet Device”, it was indeed […]

The Writer’s Toolkit, part 3 : A10JQ

May 28, 2014 in Hardware / Mobile / Writing tagged A10JQ / Keyboard / MID / Mobile Computing / novel writing by Jonathan Rudderham

Before smartphones were quite so, well, smart, there was the PDA. The Personal Digital Assistant, often mocked as a digital filofax, was the most pocketable of mobile computing platforms before the advent of Smartphones. Many top manufacturers had their own range. While HP expanded the Jornada brand, Dell’s range was […]

The Writer’s Toolkit, part 2 : The Age before Smartphones

May 23, 2014 in Hardware / Mobile / Technology / Writing tagged Axim / Keyboard / Mobile Computing / novel writing / PDA 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

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

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

November 1, 2012 in NaNoWriMo / Scene Setting / Word Count / Writing tagged characters / NaNoWriMo / novel writing / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

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

May 21, 2012 in Novelling / Technology / Writing tagged novel writing by Jonathan Rudderham

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

February 27, 2012 in Book 3 / Novelling tagged novel writing / Novelling / On the path / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

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…

February 20, 2012 in Book 3 / Novelling / Writing tagged novel writing / Novelling / War of The Words / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

After a few months away from NaNoWriMo and this novel that seems to be taking ages to finish, I think I’m finally back on the path. I’ve been able to squeeze out a few hundred words by pecking at it over the last several days, but today I’ve finished the […]

Back on the path

February 19, 2012 in Book 3 / Novelling / Writing tagged NaNoWriMo / novel writing / Novelling / On the path / War of The Words / wordcount by Jonathan Rudderham

Light At The End…

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