Procrastination has always been a constant battle with me, and one that I fight every day, if not every hour. Should I do the thing I am meant to, or quickly read that entire trilogy? There are lots of self-help books, webinars, life coaches, and randoms who have a surefire solution, that will kill it…

So I have called an end to writing my first draft. It’s a smudge under 80k, and I know it is not complete. However, I was adding and changing things that perhaps didn’t need doing. I had added new scenes, then realised that I had modified other scenes in the same way. It was getting…

Well, I am less panicked now than I was. I skim-read the opening few chapters, noticed some exposition which I removed, and did a bit more of the showing. Then I strengthened the protagonist’s wants, while also showing his needs a little more. This led to the need for a few more scenes in the…

I had a plan to write a sci-fi novel first draft of 120 K words, I had a protagonist I liked, an antagonist I disliked, and a raft of supporting characters that were not cliches. I had identified their wants and needs, as well as the conflicts they would face. My settings were detailed, felt…

Well, I had good intentions, I was going to update the blog every week, at least, perhaps moving to daily. It has been two weeks since I did an update. How many other people have done that? A new blog, a few posts, and then the updates get more sporadic, until it just peters out?…