Writing and Editing – Page 3

Writing Rules For Rule Breakers

Today I read a fantastic article over at Writer Unboxed called A Singularly Unpopular View of Adverbs by Keith Cronan. In it, Cronan details how some writing preferences have appeared to become rules without fully being comprehended, which sends authors off doing things to their prose they shouldn’t be doing. Here are some great excerpts: We’ve been taughtContinue reading “Writing Rules For Rule Breakers”

Life Changing Events: Why I’ve Been Absent For A Week

And no, I haven’t done any writing. I finished NaNo last Sunday, officially won it at midnight on Wednesday, and I was prepared to do some more words on The Oncoming Storm late last week, but something amazing happened that changed my life. On Thursday my partner was granted his spouse visa to Australia. It’s subsequentlyContinue reading “Life Changing Events: Why I’ve Been Absent For A Week”

NaNoWriMo Day 6: A Busy Little Bumble Bee (And I’m Being Interviewed! 2)

I’m being interviewed at Olsen Jay Nelson’s blog talking about The Edge of Darkness and NaNoWriMo! Go check it out. Word count goal: 10,002 Achievement: 10,075. I didn’t write a post yesterday because I didn’t make the word count. I missed it by about 200 words. My fiancée and I went out in the afternoon to socialise (for GuyContinue reading “NaNoWriMo Day 6: A Busy Little Bumble Bee (And I’m Being Interviewed! 2)”

NaNoWriMo 2011 and changing the blog schedule

NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. It’s held every November and the aim is to write a 50K words novel is 30 days. My first attempt was last year, where I wrote The Edge of Darkness. This year I’m going to do Tina Storm’s first full-length novel, which as yet doesn’t have a title. InContinue reading “NaNoWriMo 2011 and changing the blog schedule”

On Beta Reading and Unfortunate Gaming Mishaps

Lately, I’ve been doing more beta-reading than writing. Reading is taking up a lot of time. I’ve been reading published books as well, and dreaming about the books I’m going to buy when I get back to Australia. I beta read the most phenomenal dystopian by a sixteen year old that blew my mind –Continue reading “On Beta Reading and Unfortunate Gaming Mishaps”