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2015 – The Year Of Hard Work

I have to be honest – I’m going to miss 2014. It was such a good year for me that it’s going to be hard to top. I’d set out to have a Year of Adventure and I certainly managed that.

In between all the house buying, tornado chasing, and sword stabbing I also managed to get a lot written. Probably the most I’ve ever done. The sad thing is that the results of that hard work never got to be seen by anyone. That’s publishing for you!

But I’m determined to capitalise on the work I’ve done and continu...

2014 – The Year Of Adventure

2013 was an incredibly challenging year for me. Leggedon was like a grenade being thrown into my life

So, after a year where just getting to the Doctor’s was a challenge, I wanted 2014 to be my year of adventure. It was a theme that stayed with me the entire year, and what an adventure it was.

I started the year by taking up sword fighting. I’ve not really blogged about it much but it’s something that I’ve enjoyed more and more as the year has gone on. Considering that good swordplay needs spee...

New Fantasy-Faction Article – 5 Reasons You Didn’t Fail NaNoWriMo

http://fantasy-faction.com/2014/five-reasons-you-didnt-fail-nanowrimo

At this time of year we hear so much about people completing NaNoWriMo. It’s all high-fives and bragging about your word count. But what if you failed to hit 50,000 words? In this article for Fantasy-Faction I talk about the reasons why NaNoWriMo has benefited you, even if you didn’t hit the 50k target. be sure to check it out!

New GPSTrackLog Article – 5 Things They Never Tell Newbies About Trackables

http://gpstracklog.com/2014/12/5-things-never-tell-newbies-geocaching-trackables.html

My latest Geocaching article is now live for GPSTracklog and this month I look at trackables again. This time, though, I look from the perspective of a new geocacher and list five things that never get told to newbies. If you’re new to Geocaching and trackables confuse you slightly, be sure to check out the article!

Fantasy-Faction Article On Collecting Writing Data

http://fantasy-faction.com/2014/collecting-data-on-your-writing

The year seems to be in a hurry to end as I have calendar dates I think should be weeks off which I’m then told are later this week. The last couple of months have been a blur and as part of the chaos of writing and getting the house set up I missed notifying people about this article I did back in November for Fantasy-Faction. It talks about collecting data on your writing and how you can use it to help you plan your projects and...

The Final Act

There’s this misguided impression some people have that once you reach the status of semi-professionally published, writing a novel becomes a mundane affair. Some people think that once you conquer the mountain that is the novel, all subsequent novels will be a piece of piss.

This is absolute horseshit.

Every novel is its own thing, complete with unique rewards and challenges. Saying that once you’ve written one novel all subsequent ones will beeasy is like saying that once you’ve climbed a mou...

Where Did November Go?

Gosh, has it really been that long since my last blog post?

November is always a busy month for me. First, there’s NaNoWriMo which I make a point of doing each year even if my participation is just limited to further work on whatever book I’m currently writing. Then every couple of years there seems to be a World of Warcraft expansion released around this time. And this year there’s the added complication of having moved the contents of a 60 foot storage container into my new house and having...

NaNoWriMo 2014

If there’s been one thing that’s been grinding my gears lately, it’s some of the anti-NaNoWriMo sentiment out there. Apparently there’s only one way to get stuff written (who knew?) and it isn’t NaNoWriMo (apparently). Those pieces that aren’t just clickbait will tell you that NaNoWriMo is a waste of time and if you were cool, you shouldn’t be doing it.

There’s only one absolute rule of writing and that’s in order to get published you have to complete work. That’s all. Get the words down and t...

New Article At GPSTrackLog On Souvenirs

http://gpstracklog.com/2014/10/geocac...

My latest article is up at GPSTrackLog and this month I take a look at Geocaching Souvenirs – What are they? How do you get them? And why you should consider ‘collecting’ them.

Be sure to check it out!

Tornado, Tornado, Tornado

The last month has been a whirlwind. Time has done that weird thing where it seems both an age ago and yesterday since I moved house. I still have boxes everywhere and don’t seem to have a free moment to unpack many of them, and I’m going to bed mentally exhausted as I work through a mountain of a ToDo list.

I have found time to get out though. I’m sword training twice a week at the moment and that’s going well and last weekend I went to the Torro Autumn conference to hear about the latest in...