Once Again Wednesday

So, it would appear to be Wednesday again. I'm not entirely sure how as it doesn't feel like a week since last Wednesday. Oh well. It is time for Wednesday WIPpet, which is open to everyone to play along. There's a linky thing somewhere but I am not anywhere near talented enough with computers to …

Knowing when it’s time to move on.

In just over a week, I'll be moving cities and while I may comeback to my home town to visit, I hope never to live here again. Which brings me to the topic of endings; the first draft of my WIP is so close to completion that its not even funny. Another few scenes, another ten …

Help!!!

So the time has come once again when I throw myself at your mercy and beg you for ideas. Like in my earlier post, which you responded to amazingly well, I have stuck my characters in a situation where they are expecting me to come up with some brilliant plan to get them out of …

Update

Progress on my main WIP is slow. Okay, it's nonexistent. However, in the last four days alone I have written over 8000 words. Not bad considering my usual word count for a week is barely 5000 words. Of course, word counts aren't everything. In fact, they're pretty much redundant in the first and second drafts and …

Some Advice You Didn’t Ask For But Might Find Handy

At this time of year, almost sacred to writers the world over, it is even more important to set goals. Achievable goals. And I think it is on that point that we fall down. Setting goals is fine, notionally. Easy, even. Just write down what you want to achieve and do it. However, such flippancy …

Just an observation

With my first novel, the idea for it sprang unbidden from the depths of my imagination and ran away from me so quickly and impossibly broadly that I could not catch it or keep it contained and in order. I simply didn’t have the writing experience to be able to do so. As a result, …

Ideas Needed!!

Does anyone know how to get in and out of a heavily guarded, basically impregnable medieval fortress? No, seriously, if you do, tell me HOW!! RE: my earlier post, I went with the character, as I knew I had to, and now have to get him out of above fortress. However, despite my MC's tendency …

The messenger – don’t shoot him.

The thing is, like most other writers around, I have a mental list of actors who form the cast of my stories. This list floats around in my head, changing on an almost daily basis. I never usually assign an actor to a certain character before I have a solid mental picture of the character …

This is your chance.

Okay, so I have a dilemma. The situation is this: my MC is in a situation where he can either run for the hills and let two innocent people be murdered just for belonging to a certain group or he can stay and try to defend them, get arrested and thusly, force me to come …