I recently bought an iPad, downloaded the iBooks and Kindle apps and started scouting for freebies. What I found was a wealth of copyright expired classics swaddled within the damp, soiled rags of negligent designers. In this day and age, classics should be treated with a little more care and attention…and here is my idea. Amateur, student,
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‘Broken Branches’ Beta Manuscript Printed
A printers opened up near me, infact, it’s technically the nearest retail establishment to my flat. This maybe a coincidence but I like to think of it as fate. So it would be rude not to go to them to get my 3rd draft printed to dish out to some local beta readers. Pictured is the
I need some Beta Readers! Please be my Writerly Friend!
That’s it! 3rd draft done and dusted. The next stage for me is to get feedback. I’m blind to the multitude of errors, faulty plot points, grammatical mistakes, lack of character development, personal writerly foibles and general shoddiness. I can’t see the wood for the trees. So here’s where YOU can fit in. You can be
The Final Push!
This is the final push! I’m giving myself until the end of the week to finish this 3rd draft which will then get printed and given to some specially selected victims for feedback… …if you’d like to be a specially volunteered victim, let me know. There’ll be more on that later. This 3rd draft has
2nd Draft Done…Straight into the 3rd!
Yesterday I completed the 2nd draft of ‘Broken Branches’ which I had hoped would involve plenty of artistic styling and subtle moulding…but turned out to be fixing a ton of inconsistencies, deleting gobbledegook and generally reacquainting myself with the whole story. The inconsistencies stemmed from facts changing from one chapter to another because editing 2
Retweet #alltweetingandnowritingdoesntgetmepublished to Win a Tshirt!
I haven’t blogged in nearly a month because I’m still going through the 2nd draft, nearly finished. Anyway, in the meantime I thought I’d give away this tshirt in a blatant act of whoring to get some more followers on Twitter and blog visitors. I also run a menswear blog and WeAdmire sent through this
Getting Stuck into the 2nd Draft
Haven’t blogged for a while cause I’ve been getting stuck into the 2nd draft of ‘Broken Branches’. A little later than I originally planned because various other things kept getting in the way plus not being in the right frame of mind, but here I am, better late than never. Just finished Chapter 5 (of
World Book Day, Book Night and Book Season!
It’s all going off in the world of books at the moment! Today is ‘World Book Day‘ and Saturday is ‘World Book Night‘, not on the same day. I don’t make up the rules. On book night you can attend an event and get given a free book chosen from a limited selection. If you’re
Writing vs Real Life
Sometimes I think, “What the hell am I doing, who the hell do I think I am?” You know those first few episodes of X-Factor or Britains Got Talent where some self-deranged idiot has convinced themself they can dance/sing/act/juggle but are quite plainly rubbish? If only they’d recorded themself sing, they’d realise! Sometimes I think
Do your feelings towards your first novel change after your second?
I’m in that sweet spot situated between completing the first draft of my second novel and giving it some breathing room before I go back and see if it’s complete jibberish or not for the second draft. I’m choosing to think positive thoughts at the moment…la, la, la! In trying to clear my mind of