One week to go to my final deadline. Today (Sunday) I've done about seven hours at the keyboard- obviously I did get up to make coffee...

Thursday my second draft went over the 40,000 word mark. (Admittedly at the start of the year I already had a handful of the early chapter...

March already and I'm finally making progress on the new scenes in the second draft of the novel. Back in January I was a bit concerne...

Last month I downloaded Scrivener. I was warned it is a steep learning curve but taking the time to watch the videos and work through the ...

It's been a bit of a seesaw week so far. I've made progress on the novel; rewritten another chapter today (as the noisier family m...

It's been a busy few weeks, so having time to think ahead for writing blog posts has been like wading through a room full of individual ...

As the next few weeks will be busy, I thought I'd do my annual review now. I feel it's helpful to remind myself what I've achi...

Finally I've had some free time to get back to my Nottinghamshire short novel- lots of appointments at this time of year. :( As I was ...

Life has been a little chaotic in the last month, so getting away from the stresses has been a much needed break. A couple of weeks ago it...

After a couple of stable days I'm getting the occasional issues again. Nothing major, more annoying than anything. So I've made su...

It's been a busy few months and apart from getting the short story finished and sent off, I've not had time to make any progress on ...

I did it! My entry into the New Talent Award was emailed to the competition address this afternoon, and the small entry fee paid. The co...

After my down spell last week I'm pleased to say equilibrium has been restored and I'm getting on with the first chapter rewrite. ...

It was a busy weekend, as I was trying to get everything still to do for Serena's website and remaining social media links completed. ...

Very pleased that the temperature has gone done to nearer normal for this time of year. Last week it was a struggle to do anything, even wri...

I've been lucky to have some undisturbed time today, so I've made good use of it by getting my chapter outlines written up and print...