I was going to do another post about school stories I enjoyed as a child, and What Katy Did At School fell into that category. But then I got thinking about how I enjoyed the whole series of Katy books. There are five books in the series in total. All five …
When I started writing my novel (I’ve currently nearly finished the second draft!) I joined the online writing site Scribophile. Before I joined Scrib, if you’d asked me what editing was, I’d have said that after you’d written your book, you gave it to an editor, and they corrected any mistakes you’d …
I’m led to believe that people like to know the person behind the blog. If you’re reading here, you probably don’t know much about me except that I live in the UK, and I like books! So, I’d to tell you about some other things I like, too. Starting with …
Worldbuilding is like flying towards your fantasy world with a large camera in your hand. At each step you zoom in another level. In the last post we considered cities. It’s difficult to progress any further in this exercise without having some idea of individual characters about which you wish to write …
A big thank you to my friend, Sylvia Heike, for nominating me for the Versatile Blogger Award! Please check out her blog where she chats about her writing projects. I’m a big fan of her fantasy drabbles – click here for my favourite one. The rules of nomination: 1) thank the …
For the next post in my worldbuilding series, I want to think about cities. In the previous post, we considered countries and terrain, so cities are the next logical step to zoom in to. When you are deciding which city to develop, I personally would suggest picking the one where …
Today, I spent the morning in an office currently resembling a building site, complete with drilling and banging. Then I had dental work done at lunchtime. This quote sums up how I feel right now! Tomorrow can only get better 🙂