The draft is dead, long live the draft
I think it woud be a fair assumption that most writers feel something similar to me when the 1st draft of a new story is finished. Relieved. Nervous. Knackered. At a bit of a loose end. I started the final chapter in The Emperor Initiative series - Tiberius Crowned - during a self-imposed NaNoWriMo challenge and wrote 55,000 words in a 30-day period starting mid-March. And it's taken from mid-April until now to finish it off. It turned into a bit of a slog but Saturday (3nd M
My own NaNoWriMo
Some of you may be aware that I've recently (last Thursday, the 13th) undergone a hernia operation and as a result will be off work for around a month or more. Now I could just sit at home and watch crappy daytime TV but I've decided to make more productive use of the time. In 2012 I took part in the NaNoWriMo event - the National Novel Writing Month - where the aim is to write a minimum of 50,000 words in thirty days. That's an average of just over 1,600 words a day, every d
