Since I’m writing with purpose again, I have been creating new worksheets. Quite a few of them are versions of worksheets already posted here tailored to my own specific quirks, but here is one that may be more generically useful (i.e. one that doesn’t have fields relating to the specific by-laws of my city).
editing
I hadn’t realised I had been away from my blog for so long. That just goes to show what full time work does for you… Anyhow, I am still here and still writing (just about). And I once again have a new worksheet for you… Well, perhaps worksheet is the wrong word, but it’s certainly a useful resource.
How to Preview the World
Cover art? Check. Blurb? Check. Words for the inside of the book? Check! It’s all coming together nicely – and here’s a sneak preview of the cover, just for you. The release is currently scheduled for October with the pre-orders coming in September. If you liked my worksheets, please check it out – it’s got even more resources to help you with your work.
It’s been a busy year for me so far with a lot of deadlines, but I’m really looking forward to this one. Stay tuned for more news soon!
I’ve Been Quiet…
I realise I’ve been quiet for a while. Thing is, I’m hard at work on this book I’ve been writing for ages and I just want it to be complete now. I’m nearly there. I just have a couple of thousand words left to round everything up and that’ll be good to go… into a desk drawer… to await feedback and editing. So only halfway done really. But there will at least be a story and that makes me happy.
There are so many things I need to do when this beast is off my lap.
I’ve not done any new worksheets for a while, but I’ve got a tip sheet in the works and I’m hoping to come up with a feedback sheet that could be useful when you’re giving feedback to other writers, or for readers to give feedback to you. It might not be this week, but hopefully, those will be done by May. End of May at the latest. Before summer. Soon.
- Don’t use adverbs unnecessarily
- Avoid clichés like the plague.
- Try not to beat around the bush by using a shed-load of really long sentences because they just clog up your writing, like a backed up drain, and make your point extremely difficult for your readers to either find, work out or even get to since the chances of them actually hacking their way through your ridiculously verbose and woolly one hundred and seventeen word sentence are unbelievably slim and they are far more likely to have simply given up or abandoned ship when they first saw how it took up four or five lines of the page when they initially opened it in their browser, so just cut to the chase — in other words, be succinct.
I’m Rubbish at Blogging
You know, the thing I seem to blog about most is always the fact that I forget to blog. It’s been the same on nearly every blog I’ve started, the exception being A Gamer’s Life for Me (Come on, writing about games I’ve played is much easier than writing about writing).
The problem is that I don’t have much to say. I want to share the fact that I’ve finished editing my latest novel Judgement with the world, but when I have just finished editing a book, that is literally all I have done. I haven’t got it published, haven’t found an agent, haven’t started something new. And it’s taken so long to do that I have nothing to blog about in between the post about starting the edit and the post about finishing the edit. Worst of all, neither post is that interesting to the majority of readers.
So what do you write about when writing is all that you’ve done?
A Writer's Life for Me 