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...

In the chair does sound a bit sinister, but it's not- thankfully. It was the writers' club's AGM last night and the post of ...

Today has been moving furniture out of my office area and putting temporary storage in place. It's certainly given me a bit more space, ...

Half way through the year already! What have I achieved so far? To date I have already exceeded my 2013 word count total; that was 23,03...

A useful reference book... (image source:Amazon) Yes, I was meant to be writing a short story, and getting on with my second draft, b...

Getting back to the normal everyday routine is not going well. So this coming week I really must be tough with myself. Over the years I...

Happy 2017... I hope your Christmas went well. Today is very foggy and cold, so apart from a brief trip outside I've been indoors ...

Well it's the day after the night before and I can now reveal what I've been keeping quiet about since late October... I won one ...

Almost at the August Bank Holiday again- where has summer gone? I'm going to be grabbing writing time here and there for the next few ...

For many years I've been a m ember of the Talkback forum over on the writers-online website, and the monthly one word writing challenge ...

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

I'm always surprised to discover my editing skills have improved. As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I have a short story that I wa...

My rewriting of the short story is going well. I've finished the first rewrite now and just need to go back through it, as I'm a c...

As I've been attempting to revise a short story that has been sitting on my computer for a while - it won one of the writers club short ...

I hope your Christmas went well, and if you were in countries where severe damage was done by flooding or tornado's I wish you a better ...

I doubt there can ever be a truly definitive answer to what it the actual length of a novella or a novel because there are so many variables...