The Notebook, NaNo Edition, Part the Second.

Sorry, this is a bit late (at least by my standards). I've been so overwhelmed lately with NaNoWriMo and studying for exams. For those of you who were wondering, my current word count stands at about 13,700 and I hope to get to at least 15,000 by tonight. 16,000 would be better so I can …

The Notebook, NaNo Edition, Part the First.

In honour of November, writing, and all things NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, I'm not going to repeat it again), this weeks notebook entry is of the first scrawlings that led to this years story. How exciting! It all began with a question, but first some context. The heroine of my NaNo project is a …

The Notebook, Part the Third

Yep, still haven't managed to find an interesting name for this segment but oh well, onto the action I say! But before that, I wanted to let you know about a charity event my friend is organising. You can find info here. It's to raise money for girls in Sierra Leone to go to school …

The Notebook, Part the Second.

So, for my second instalment of The Notebook (more creative name somewhere in the works) I have the beginning of a story that's been nagging at the back of my mind for a few weeks now. I haven't had the time to develop it yet but hope to once exams are over in a month. …

The Notebook, Part the First.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that writer in possession of ideas will be in search of somewhere to put them. This is where notebooks come in, or in this day and age, phones, tablets, laptops, computers and smoke signals, though probably not the latter, it can get costly. I don't know about you but …