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August 16, 2010
GOOD NEWS, GOOD NEWS
Hurrah! My first read-through and mark-up of FrostFire is finished! *Releases party streamers, jumps up and down, sprays champagne* I never have to go through that again! With this book, anyway.
Yes, it both sucked and blew. Simultaneously. Yes, I'm going to have to delete the first eight chapters and start again from scratch in order to make them readable by human beings. Yes, my favourite red pen ran out during this process. Yes. I have soooo much work to do. Yes, yes, yes, BUT now I know ho...
Yes, it both sucked and blew. Simultaneously. Yes, I'm going to have to delete the first eight chapters and start again from scratch in order to make them readable by human beings. Yes, my favourite red pen ran out during this process. Yes. I have soooo much work to do. Yes, yes, yes, BUT now I know ho...
August 13, 2010
FIVE THINGS ON A FRIDAY
*Waves from the trenches*
Hi everyone. I've had a week of insane up and downs and I thought I'd share a few with you this wet and windy Friday (I think we've had our chips as far as summer goes, here in the UK).
1) In the downs, take a look at these images for a glimpse of how my revising is going. If it looks like the pages are bleeding to death? That's pretty accurate.
2) In the ups, my new laptop arrived! I call it The Scalpel, because it's thin and silver and shiny.
3) In the downs, I got rip...
Hi everyone. I've had a week of insane up and downs and I thought I'd share a few with you this wet and windy Friday (I think we've had our chips as far as summer goes, here in the UK).
1) In the downs, take a look at these images for a glimpse of how my revising is going. If it looks like the pages are bleeding to death? That's pretty accurate.
2) In the ups, my new laptop arrived! I call it The Scalpel, because it's thin and silver and shiny.
3) In the downs, I got rip...
August 11, 2010
THE SUCK, THE SUCK, O WHEN WILL IT END?
Yeah. I'm curled up in the fetal position clutching chocolate in one hand and my dog with the other at the moment. Not a good time for trying to put together a coherent post. So instead I share this supremely cool video from soon-to-be-superstar Leah Clifford, which just about expresses my mindset, except that she's not sobbing into her dog's ear (I don't think she has a dog).
Anywhere, here you go.
Anywhere, here you go.
August 9, 2010
REVISION: IT IS TEH SUCK
Argh.
Before moving on in earnest with FrostFire Book Two I decided to print out, re-read and revise Book One, so that a) I'd have a much firmer idea of the choices I needed to make for the second book and b) I can let my editor have a more-or-less completed ms and she can see that there is method in my madness. Chances are that in the writing of the second book things will change anyway - they nearly always do - and I'll still have to go back and tweak Book One a bit to match. But of course m...
Before moving on in earnest with FrostFire Book Two I decided to print out, re-read and revise Book One, so that a) I'd have a much firmer idea of the choices I needed to make for the second book and b) I can let my editor have a more-or-less completed ms and she can see that there is method in my madness. Chances are that in the writing of the second book things will change anyway - they nearly always do - and I'll still have to go back and tweak Book One a bit to match. But of course m...
August 7, 2010
THE DEMON'S LEXICON BY SARAH REES BRENNAN
Watch the vlog: it tells you everything you need to know.
August 6, 2010
PLACEHOLDER POST
Super late posting today! Sorry guys. This is because today I was waaay too busy reading to think about anything else. For twenty-four hours I've been living in my own little blissful reading world and it was amazing. I'm only posting now because I finished the book. Ah, sweet satisfaction. I feel like a cat that swallowed a really fat canary. Two canaries.
I've already told you all about the books on my TBR pile that I was going to read this week. I read a few and reviewed them on Monday for ...
I've already told you all about the books on my TBR pile that I was going to read this week. I read a few and reviewed them on Monday for ...
August 3, 2010
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
My post title today is a quote from Oscar Wilde (possibly the most quotable writer that ever lived). And I agree with him completely. I'm a dedicated re-reader. Any book that I enjoyed reading will get re-read at least once - books I loved will usually be re-read again and again throughout the rest of my life. No matter how cleverly written a novel is, if I can't imagine myself re-reading it then it has failed for me on a crucial level.
Since I first read it in 2005, I've revisited The Curse o...
Since I first read it in 2005, I've revisited The Curse o...
August 2, 2010
BOOK REVIEWS
I read three books from my TBR pile this weekend, and they couldn't have been more different from each other if they tried! For your delectation and delight, I've reviewed all three and put the reviews on my Goodreads page. I wish I could post them here directly, but I tend to ramble when I review (yes, yes, I know - not JUST when I review!) and even a single one of them would be long for a blog post.
So if you want to know what I thought of SHIVER by Maggie Stiefvater, you can find out here.
I...
So if you want to know what I thought of SHIVER by Maggie Stiefvater, you can find out here.
I...
July 30, 2010
FIVE THINGS ON A FRIDAY
I have no idea who came up with Five Things on a Friday, but I see it all over the place, so I thought I would join in.
Awesometastic competition to win all kinds of drool-worthy books which haven't been released yet. I've already entered!I've written and delivered the synopsis for the two book series (currently just titled FrostFire One and FrostFire Two, but hopefully something less lame in the near future) to my editor. Now we cross our fingers for a positive response.
And since I've...
Awesometastic competition to win all kinds of drool-worthy books which haven't been released yet. I've already entered!I've written and delivered the synopsis for the two book series (currently just titled FrostFire One and FrostFire Two, but hopefully something less lame in the near future) to my editor. Now we cross our fingers for a positive response.
And since I've...
July 28, 2010
MYSTERIOUS HINTS (Oooh!)
Hi Everyone! A late post today, because I have been taken up with publishing matters of an engimatical, unconfirmed kind.
I can't really explain anything in great detail yet. However, faithful blog readers may find a hint in my recent post about The Scary Place - the point in a work in progress where a writer realises that their plot won't fit into their book, and they're going to over-run their word target. By *a lot*.
Very faithful blog readers may even remember the post I made a while ago wh...
I can't really explain anything in great detail yet. However, faithful blog readers may find a hint in my recent post about The Scary Place - the point in a work in progress where a writer realises that their plot won't fit into their book, and they're going to over-run their word target. By *a lot*.
Very faithful blog readers may even remember the post I made a while ago wh...
