by Dan | May 26, 2015 | children's books, fantasy, juvenile fiction, writing, writing tips
“When you say you’re editing your book, what do you mean?” I’ve been asked this a few times now. Let me tell you what I have been up to since I finished the first draft of the new book (“first draft” means I wrote the whole story...
by Dan | Mar 28, 2015 | writing, writing tips
First draft is finished! Hurrah! But what does “finished” mean? For me it means I have all the chapters in and every chapter pretty much has a beginning, middle and an end. You can read the story as it is now and it is “a story”. There are...
by Dan | Feb 18, 2015 | fantasy, juvenile fiction, writing
Hard to believe my last update was just before the New Year when I had barely begun but I have been writing and researching furiously since. Not as furiously as Book 1, of course, or I’d be done by now. In the last six weeks I have written 55,000 words of this...
by Dan | Jan 11, 2015 | inspiration, Sci-fi, writing, writing tips
Stargate SG1, the long-running but kind-of underrated sci-fi TV show ran from 1997 – 2008 but I only just watched it over the last few months. I saw a few of the first season back when it was first broadcast and then caught a few here and there but I never knew what...
by Dan | Dec 29, 2014 | children's books, fantasy, juvenile fiction, writing
I have been quiet on the blogging front and that’s mainly because I am busy writing the second book in the Gunpowder and Alchemy series. So, where am I at? Planning; overall arc was decided a while back but now I have every chapter roughed out. We are looking at...
