Light is just about visible at the end of this tunnel. I have five more piddly, IMPOSSIBLE, easy, HARD pages left to edit on my current WIP, then I’m expecting to do one pass-through to fix all my yellow highlighted* bits, and another to add a final bit of polish. Woo-hoo! I’m so close I can taste it, so far it still
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The question of how to fill your time is very similar to the one that asks how to spend your money. If you don’t think about it properly, you’ll just waste it. I’ve started playing Guild Wars 2 – the new MMO from NCsoft that’s supposed to be pretty damn awesome. But can I find the time to get further
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Over at Absolute Write, I’m reading a thread in which someone is wondering whether they should write a YA SF book with a female lead or not – reasoning that not many girls read science fiction. It’s nice to see that lots of people are disagreeing with the original poster, reassuring her that she should just write her story the
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Another month, another deadline for the magazine I work on. Time is swooshing by. It’s July and I’m already working on the September issue. Christmas is only around the corner. I’m writing all day and I love that – it’s a real privilege. But it’s tough when one of your hobbies is writing as well. You have to be really disciplined
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My web hosting at Dreamhost was coming to an end, and as it’s had a pretty patchy month in terms of downtime I decided to look for other options. Eventually I hit on Tsohost, and found a voucher for 50% off which always helps, and so I’ve switched. Hopefully it’ll work out – I don’t want to spend the rest
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Just finished Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (so mild spoilers ahead), and as I often like to do after turning the last page of a book, decided to look up some reviews to see what other people thought (I tend to read more reviews after I’ve read a book than before I buy one). It didn’t take long to find
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Usually when I disappear for a bit, it’s because I’ve been sidetracked away from the world of writing. Not so much this time, although there is a little bit of that perhaps. I saw the Samhain open call for superhero stories and had something I could revise for it so took a few weeks out from regular novel editing to
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Keep running out of time to blog lately – I am not doing well with my goals. I’m still editing, but it’s going slower than I wanted. One positive out of it is that I’ve thought of a couple of clever ways to fill plot holes that I didn’t realise were there until very recently. It does mean I’ve got
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I’ve entered this crazy editing phase during which I’m overcome with enthusiasm (though I am not necessarily working noticeably quicker) and all I want to do is race through the book and get to the end. Whoa there! There is too much story and way too many corrections to make to let that happen. My current pace might be a
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Ahh, the joys and hardships of looking after a baby while your partner is away. I honestly don’t know how single parents manage it. I know they just have to get on with it, but I admire them all the same. This week my lovely husband is away at a work conference. It’s fine. I’m a grown up. I don’t
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