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Teaser #2 – Training

Here’s the second teaser trailer for something HUGE that’s coming up next week. This has needed 6 months near solid training and planning that has taken place in complete secrecy.

More tomorrow!

Teaser #1 – Adventure

Not all is as it at first seems. Keep watching throughout this week for something truly, truly epic!

Scotland Bound (But Not To Eastercon)

In a few day’s time I get to go away with the day job for three weeks in the Scottish Mountains doing IT on what is little more than a construction site. Despite my proximity to Eastercon I will not be there.

There’s a lot to get ready. Longest I’ve been away with the leg is a week and that took a lot of planning. Three weeks means a lot more. And with a week to go, it’s a little manic.

As a result I’ve resigned myself to the fact that I’ve already entered the time of “little writing”. That tim...

New Article At Fantasy-Faction On Why Writing Is Like LEGO

http://fantasy-faction.com/2014/writing-is-like-lego-and-its-awesome

In this month’s article for Fantasy-Faction I look at the links between writing and LEGO and explain why both are awesome.

It’s a fun article that seems to have gone down very well so please be sure to check it out!

Planning Geocaching Days Out At GPSTracklog

My latest article for GPSTrackLog has gone live and this month I’m showing you my method for putting together a day out caching. I cover all the things to consider and the different tools I use to make sure the day out is a success, whether I plan to just do a handful or set a new geocaching record.

Be sure to check it out!

Writing Progress

So April got off to a slow start with a number of days off the writing. Issues with the leg have slowed me down a little the past fortnight and taken my attention elsewhere. And Storm Chasing season is just starting in the US meaning I’m glued to livestreams of an evening.

I’m also moving into the second act of this draft of Thieving King which is where things are radically different from previous drafts. This has been the point where things have broken in the past. This time they feel pretty...

Test Image

Testing new instant image post functionality for something I’ll be doing next month

One Year On

So Leggedon celebrates its first anniversary this week and it’s a good time for me to look back and see all the things I’ve accomplished or experienced since

Written first draft of one book, and half way through a third draft on another
Lost over 100lb in weight
Solo cached 133 finds over 28 miles with a 6” hole in my leg
Changed my entire writing process from the ground up
Started sword fighting
Walked 37 miles to become one of first UK cachers to do over 200 caches on foot in a day (possible UK r...

The Process Stage 3: Serious Word Count

So last weekend I wrote 18,412 words on the novel.

I also found time to go for a run twice, watch TV, write a 800 word blog post (pushing words written for weekend over 19,000), edit another article and start playing World of Warcraft again… amongst other things.

And you want to know the kicker? I don’t think I was anywhere as productive as I could have been.

So I can here you all ask, just how is this even possible?

Well, here’s the secret.

I’ve changed how I look at work. Before I had a day and...

Tornado Chasers

My absolute favourite TV programme isn’t on television. You can’t even buy it on DVD or Blu-Ray. Instead it is bought and downloaded over the web.

Some of you may remember some years ago that there was a Discovery TV series called Storm Chasers. This followed the exploits of three chase teams as they tracked storms and tried to intercept tornadoes.

There’s so little known about tornadoes. Predicting them is still a black art and we don’t really know much about what goes on inside one. And so th...