Dave Robison is one of the finest people I know. He’s a dynamo of enthusiasm, ideas and energy, always driving forwards, always bringing other people with him and always with something else on the backburner. He’s an inspiration, a man whose absolute faith in other never ceases to humble and amaze me. A couple of …
So, a year ago, flush with success after writing 147, 000 words in NanoJourno, I accepted a challenge from my friend Colin Barnes. Colin is an author, publisher and all around bad ass and he did some math. Specifically, that if you write just over 2,700 words a day, every day, for 365 days you’d …
2013 saw me read a lot more books than recent years, and a frankly slightly intimidating amount of graphic novels. The overall standard of the stuff I’ve read has been really high but three books absolutely knocked it out of the park. Like the man says, click for the link through.
Halfway point, or close enough to see it, and the tempo has definitely changed. The Pseudopod book is out with beta readers, the appendices for it are in place and just need a formatting and typo pass so I’ve spent today digging into the pickup work I’ve had to do. This has meant writing …
Light duty today. Everything’s out with Beta readers and I’m already getting feedback, which is great, and it’s great feedback too. However, until it’s all in, I’m not letting myself go near the main text because it’ll drive me crazy. So instead today’s been the second pass through the appendices and starting to shift …