The Pirate Code: Sometimes Guidelines Are Worth Following

Hello hello. Wednesday is a busy day. Busy busy. Classes started back at uni this week and so far I've only had three of my four classes but they are all really exciting and interesting. 😀 I'm really looking forward to the rest of semester, which is not something I've wholeheartedly said before so that's …

On a ROWl: A Terrible Pun

First of all, thank you to everyone who read and commented on my WIPpet Wednesday post. I was pleasantly surprised that it had the most traffic of any post in a long time considering it totaled about 100 words and contained only one line of prose. Made me happy 🙂 Anyway, onto the real business... …

The Notebook, NaNo Edition, Part the Fourth

I cannot believe it is already the fourth Saturday of NaNoWriMo. The weeks have gone so fast and unfortunately, I have been so preoccupied that I have let my writing fall by the wayside. I am now 8000 words behind which I can probably recoup but I just have absolutely no motivation. I have not …

Violent Desire

...for more words. Well, this is why we can't have nice things. I thought about giving you guys a nice chunk just to stop the violence but then I thought, no, that would just encourage you.If you're new to the WIPpet bandwagon, you can find the other participants here. The rules are super simple; your excerpt …

The Language Instinct, Part 2.

Today, we continue with my worldbuilding series and the topic of the moment, language. Last post I talked about research. Today's post will cover structure and variation. Structure (or syntax, if you want to get fancy) can vary from language to language. It is easy to fall into the Subject-Verb-Object trap when creating a language …

Scavenger birds stealing my words.

Once again, the WIPpet birds fly down to prise some words from my novel. The rules are simple; post an excerpt from a WIP which correlates somehow to the date. You can find links to the other participants of WIPpet Wednesday here. Today is the 10th so I owe you ten somesomthings. I could be …

The Language Instinct, Part 1.

So this is the first of my worldbuilding posts which are specifically geared at writers of fantasy however I hope the information can be useful to others as well. Words. Language. The precious nectar of civilisation; the ambrosia of sanity and insanity both. Without words, we are nothing. With words, we can be anything. As …

Parlez-vous francais?

First thing you need to know - this post has almost nothing to do with French, despite any misconceptions the title might give. The second thing you need to know (there will be a test :P) is this post is the second in my world-building series (if you can really call it that). The third …

WIPpet Wednesday

I have reached the stage where I can't show you anything more from the WIP I usually use on these delightful Wednesday's because of spoilers so from now on, I'll give you exerts from the tentatively titled Rebellion Rising, a sort-of sequel. On the positive side, new characters to meet 🙂 As today is the …

WIPpet Choice

Now, I know you're all wondering what I'm up to. It's not Wednesday! you say. Isn't it? Of course not! Well, then, I must be here for some other purpose. I have found that often (not always) with my WIPpet pieces, you want to know what happens next. Which is probably a decent reflection of those …