High Winds, Blogging and Fairy Dust...

Don't really mix... internet connection has been terribly dodgy all week and am taking opporunity of a bit of a lull to write a quick blogette. Didn't want you to think that I'd cut and run. I'm still working through PloWriMo and some of it is useful, so I'm going to stick with it. Also just got back into writing habit after NaNoWriMo, it kind of sucked me dry.

So my plans over the festive hols? Well, I'm going to write my 2012 goals and make sure they are laced with a touch of fairy dust but lashings of reality. And it's going to snow, so warm fire, a pile of reading books and a pen and my journal. Sorted.

Until Later...

From NaNoWriMo to PlotWriMo

Well, yes as you can see, I made it! And a day early too. So I'm really chuffed but I've been lying down in a dark room since. Well, that's not quite true but I've had a bad head cold, my Man Friday is suffering from acute sciatic pain and we had to paint the lounge! The break from the daily writing has been good (if not a little enforced - having less than fours sleep a night is not conducive to the creative muse) but I am keen to get back into a routine.

So I've started to follow PloWriMo - this will help, hopefully, in the second drafting of The Dukes' Shadow, and whilst I really enjoyed writing the story I know there are yawning holes and gaps to be filled, so in preparation for the editing task in January 2012 I thought I'd see what this particular blog has to offer. I don't like watching the videos though, for one thing my connection can be a bit fickle but I'm just not a visual person in terms of learning the writing craft, reading about it and doing the exercises are much more my cup of tea...

Until Later