Recently I’ve been reading “Creating Stories” by my friend Hank Quense. It covers slightly different, more advanced ground than -“From Story -idea to Reader. I think they’re both excellent books. Take it away, Hank! My recently published Creating Stories has everything I’ve leaned about writing stories over the last twenty years. Below is an extract on plotting. Learn more at Amazon. From Chapter 6: Constructing a plot A plot…
I did it!
I did it! I typed the magic words THE END I still have to process the feedback from my beta readers for the last 10 (short) chapters, but I got to the end. Just in time too. La Palma is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the starlight declaration and I’m going to be very busy indeed from now until Friday.
No Squee Sunday because…
I’m very, very close to the end of the second draft of my novel, “Murder by Starlight”. 99,000 words down, about 2,000 to go. I can’t bear to stop. When I get to THE END I will have a coherent novel. There will still be things to fix, but unlike the first draft I won’t have things like: [Write a scene here in which they quarrel and stop speaking] People…
Squee Sunday: Snails
Who knew snails could be so cute? I certainly didn’t, until I went looking for a picture to apologise for being slow.
