Jess Mountifield's Blog, page 43
November 1, 2011
The Plan: November 11
Last month Here's the bullet list for last month's work. Typed approx 10k words (including emails and blogs) Spent about 15 hours reading Spent about 10 hours working for Flight Spent about 20 hours working for Red Feather Writing Spent about 5 hours promoting book 1 Approved the final print version of book 1 and [...]
October 31, 2011
NaNoWriMo Prep
I'm all set for NaNoWriMo and due to start tomorrow. Book 3 is now named, it's called Sherdan's Prophecy. I am signed up on the main NaNoWriMo site and all set to go, you can check out my user page here. I will try and update my progress at least a couple of times during [...]
October 28, 2011
Cowboys And Aliens: A Review
I thought long and hard about seeing this movie, not able to decide if I'd like the combination of western and sci-fi. Then I saw the trailor and realised both Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford were in the film and my mind was made up, yes I'm aware how shallow that is but I really [...]
October 25, 2011
How To Live With A Creative Mind
This isn't actually a subject I profess to be that knowledgeable about. I would definitely consider myself to be a creative mind, but in terms of living with it, well I regularly forget to eat, I'm emotional at the best of times and sometimes absolutely nothing will convince me to put my pen down and [...]
October 22, 2011
Author Interview: Helmy Kusuma
Helmy Kusuma has kindly agreed to do an interview today. Tell us about your latest project. There Is Hope, which is a short sci-fi about post-nucleo-calypse world. I wrote this in the middle of finishing my second novella. A little break once in a while works wonders. So far you have shorts and Novella's published, [...]
October 19, 2011
Background Details: Book 3, part 3
I've been plotting book 3 and in the process have found I needed to do some more research. I wasn't going to share it but it ended up actually being quite cool, so I am now. The main point of research I wanted to look into was declaring a patch of land an independant country [...]
October 16, 2011
Unwritten: A Review
I've never reviewed a song before but I recently got asked to listen to Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield and the words hit me like a ton of bricks, so thanks Alex for the prod to listen to it. Here's the video - Unwritten on YouTube Lyrics I am unwritten, Can't read my mind I'm undefined [...]
October 13, 2011
Enigma
Enigma is one of those words not heard that much but one that most people recognise. Despite being an author I didn't know the meaning of this very lovely little word until someone called me an enigma about 5 weeks ago. I then had to look it up, here's the dictionary definition for those few [...]
October 10, 2011
Author Interview: Paul M. Schofield
My interviewee for today is Paul M. Schofield. Tell us about your latest project. The latest project is finishing the first sequel to TROPHY, my first novel. The story of the New Victorian Empire continues on in TROPHY: RESCUE. Additional new characters have complicated the plot and added new twists and turns to keep the [...]
October 7, 2011
Background Details: Book 3, Part 2
A few months ago I wrote a blog post detailing some of the background details that were needed and some research point for Book 3. I thought I'd share some of the research and interesting things I found in follow up to the previous blog here. My first point of research was Bristol, I'd like [...]
