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New Article At Fantasy-Faction On Procrastination

Over at Fantasy-Faction this month I take a look at that nemesis of all writers, procrastination, and in doing so explain why you should never trust a version of you from the future!

Be sure to check it out!

First Draft Complete

So I’ve written a book. My working title is “Black as Knight”. It’s basically Lies of Locke Lamora meets Batman Year One.

It was a book that wasn’t supposed to happen. It was a book to test new processes I put in place. It was a book I wrote as I clawed myself back from disaster following leggedon last year.

It’s also the longest book I’ve ever written coming in at around 154,000 words (and I tend to under-write in a first draft)

But… it’s also been the easiest book to write and the most fun des...

Sword Play

So what I really want to write is a blog post about is how busy writing I’ve been and how I’ve finished a draft of a huge book and how I love it very much. But that blog post is probably a week off. So instead I’ll talk briefly about the challenges I’ve set myself this year.

2014 is going to be filled with adventures. Some are personal challenges – so personal in fact that no-one other than me knows about them. I like the idea that no-one is able to encourage me and instead I have to rely on m...

Oregon 650 Review At GPSTracklog

Over at GPSTracklog this month I’ve written a review of the Oregon 650 Handheld GPS device purely from the perspective of a geocacher. This is Garmin’s top of the range device but as I discover, you may encounter some problems with it as a cacher. Worth a read if you’ve been thinking of upgrading recently. Be sure to check out the full review

Article On New Year’s Resolutions At Fantasy-Faction

Over at Fantasy-Factionthey’ve just published my article on New Year’s resolutions for writers. So if you’re planning for 2014 to be your big writing year, it’s not too late to check it out and pick up some tips for those last few resolutions.

The 2013 End Of Year Review

In many ways I should look back on 2013 as a shit year. It challenged me in ways I could never have imagined. But in reality, I think it was actually a really good year. The universe decided to throw everything it possibly could against me… and it lost.

Leggedon was a defining moment and I surprised myself with how I reacted. If I’m being honest, I would have pegged myself as someone who when faced with overwhelming adversity would have turned away. But I didn’t (probably more out of stupidity...

Get A Copy Of The Four Realms FOR FREE! (Anarchy Books Promotion)

Anarchy Books is running a promotion between 25th and 30th December where you can download a copy of The Four Realms and four other of its titles for FREE. Please tell everyone you know to ‘buy’ a copy (even if they don’t own a kindle) as it not only helps my Amazon sales ranking but it in turn will help with future book sales. Full press release after the cut. From 25thDecember 2013 (GMT) for 5 days, as a very special Christmas treat for all you lucky people who might have received a new Ki...

From NaNoWriMo To Beyond

I suppose the good news is that I won NaNoWriMo. Yay! The bad news is that this, along with stuff I did before, takes me to around 80,000 words, and given the length of the chapters I reckon this draft will come in around 160,000 – 180,000 words.

For the most part this has been the most fun I’ve had writing a novel. There were a couple of chapters a week or so ago where I felt a bit unsure of what I was doing and whether this was actually any good, but those times come during the course of a d...

An Update On What I’m Working On

So in the last couple of weeks I’ve had a number of people ask me what I’m working on and when the next book is out. So I thought I’d give an update.

For all my jokes, Leg-gedon lost me a lot of time. I really had to focus on so many things – building the strength of the leg back up, ultra restrictive diet, etc. – that I lost a lot of creative energy. I realise that sounds a bit wanky but sitting at a desk with one leg outstretched and elevated really isn’t the most comfortable position to wri...

The Short Story Challenge

I’ll let you into a little secret: I struggle with short stories. Really I do.

It’s not that I can’t write them. Jetsam got some of the highest praise (hello, honorable mention, year’s best horror). It’s just that I seem to be so hit and miss with them. I’ve been thinking about this recently and I came to the conclusion that my problem is that I often try to write stories I can cram into 7000 words rather than actual short stories and one is not always the other. In the last few months I’ve w...