• Powerless Series,  Writing

    Finishing a novel feels weird

    I’m coming close to the end of the first draft of Killing Gods and I’m getting the same feeling I had at the same point with Powerless, an odd sense of “oh well then”. I don’t write sequentially, I write…

  • Powerless Series,  Writing

    Killing Gods first draft nearly done

    Yes, I’m well aware I’m tempting fate by writing that post title, but I think it’s almost there. Funny thing is I’m nowhere near my 120,000 word target. No particular reason for that choice, that’s just how long Powerless ended…

  • Powerless Series,  Writing

    My current writing plans

    I like to have vague plans. They are planny enough that, should anyone ask, I can tell them what I’m going to be doing with my spare time for the next few years. But they are vague enough so that,…

  • Powerless Series,  Writing

    Reworked and re-happied!

    Spent a good few hours over the last week restructuring the final third of Killing Gods. I’m not having any problems with the actual writing of it, but I was never happy with how the last section was going to…

  • Personal Opinion,  Writing

    Too much TV!

    Why does all the good TV get squeezed into the Autumn/Winter seasons? I guess they think everyone is inside keeping warm and out of the dark nights, but it’s not like we suddenly have less to do in the evenings!…

  • Powerless Series,  Writing

    You gotta have a system!

    It’s been painfully slow on book two of the Powerless series, and I only just realised why: I had changed the way I was writing. For Powerless I would write a paragraph here, a couple of lines or scenes there…