My first self-published novel, Knight’s of Elevar, has been reviewed by Bob Milne as part of the The Great Self-published Fantasy Blog-off. It looks like I won’t be going through to the next round but I’m really pleased with what he has to say.
My writing target for this year was 10,000 words. That seemed like an easy goal. Writing my usual 500 words per day over lunch would leave plenty of wiggle room if I needed to miss a day or two.
Another snippet of writing before I start editing the novel.
I haven’t been writing much lately as I don’t have a novel idea at the moment. I’ve finished off the Knights of Elevar series and next week I’m going to start editing my Nanowrimo entry from last year, so that will take up a big chunk of my time. In the meantime I’ve been writing the occasional 500-ish word piece to keep the practice in. This is title “The Bonescribe”. I like it, but I think the horror is a bit lacking. Then again, I have just read Chuck Palahnuik’s Guts, so maybe I’m comparing it to that.
Last week David F. Chapman of Autocratik wrote a blog post about his writing process as part of a blog tour which has been going around. I’ve known David ever since we met in Abstract Sprocket waaay back in the 90’s so he tagged me in his post.
I’ve been brain storming some ideas to submit to Bastion for their first issue.
This month has been a much more productive writing month! The image shows my daily writing totals between and :
This image shows my daily writing totals between and :
I released the fifth part of the Knights of Elevar series, again, through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform.
, slightly later than planned, I released the fourth part of the Knights of Elevar series, again, through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform.
I’ve just released the third part of the Knights of Elevar series, again, through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform.
This is the opening scene from my Nanowrimo 2013 attempt. This is before any editing so may change drastically over the development of the novel. The concept is related to my entry last year, titled Monkeys in Space, but the story is completely different.
Nanowrimo 2013 is almost upon us and I’ve signed up in anticipation. I’ve got a few different ideas that might work, I just need to pick one of them.
I’ve just released the second part of the Knights of Elevar series, again, through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform.
The Black Knight follows on from The Knight of the White Fountain, even though it was written before it. It has similar themes, but includes loss and regret at the sacrifices the main character is forced to make.
Late last night I released my very first self-published short story through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform.
The Knight of the White Fountain was originally written as a final short story for a writing course I took around 2008. This piece is about sacrifice and using the tools you’re given — no matter what they are.
I’m a programmer by day and I spend a lot of evenings and weekends writing. This means a lot of time in front of a computer typing.
A short story which turns the trauma of hair loss on its head. Pun intended.
In my day-to-day life I’m a software developer and Technical Director of Nomad Co-operative. One of the things we’ve released recently is Storytel.la, which is a writing tool with a programmer’s mindset.