• Daft,  Writing

    The worst time of the year!

    Yes, the worst time of the year has come round again. It’s when all my favourite TV shows return for their new seasons, eating into my writing time. Not to mention any new shows I want to check out. Like…

  • Powerless Series,  Writing

    Starting work on book #3

    With Powerless 2nd Revised edition and Killing Gods 1st edition now out (and the mad self-publishing and promotional scramble around them having calmed down) it’s time for me to focus on the next book in the series. And I already know…

  • Powerless Series,  Writing

    The Powerless Bible

    Now that I’ve finished the first draft of Killing Gods I’ve decided to create a ‘Bible’ for the Powerless universe. I have a terrible memory at the best of times, yet for some reason I can hold a whole world…

  • 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

    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…

  • 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…