I have previously struggled to write a decent one, I did try before but it wasn’t very good so the other day I had another go at it as quite few people have been asking me what my still unfinished book is about. I didn’t look at the old one before writing this so hopefully […]
Read more "My book blurb, again"I’ve been working on my books synopsis which is surprisingly hard to do. This is what I have come up with it. Out of the blue Tybalt discovered he was a wizard. Suddenly from being a thief living on the streets destined for the gallows he had become an important player in a game he […]
Read more "Book Synopsis – what do you think?"I’ve had a go a re-writing my 1st chapter. I made the mistake of showing the different versions of my opening paragraph to different members of my family now I have lots of conflicting advice. Now I can’t make up my mind. Which one do you prefer? In no particular order; 1. Tybalt peeked out from […]
Read more "Help, I can’t decide!"I have either finished the first draft of part one of my book or have a barebones draft of the whole book. Its only 53k words so not a finished book yet. I need to rewrite large bits of it and fill in the missing gaps. I need to show a bit more development of […]
Read more "I’ve finished! (well sort of)"Here is another snippet from my book. Tybalt, who is having to use the name Herbert, is in a magical theory class taught by Alan. I have already decided this character doesn’t work he is too nasty to be believable. Instead I’m going to rewrite him as a more sympathetic character who does something horrible. […]
Read more "A bit of chapter 10 that is all wrong!"I started my blog to document my trials and tribulations writing a book. It’s changed and I seem to post about lots of other things as well. I thought I would take a few minutes and write about how well it’s going if for no other reason than help me reflect on where I am […]
Read more "Haven’t you finished yet?"In July six glorious work free weeks stretched before me. My possibilities were endless. Now sadly they are drawing to a close. I realise many of you might be shouting abuse at me for having long holidays but frankly I don’t care, it one of the few perks left to being a teacher! Now it’s […]
Read more "Summer Holidays are finishing – have I done enough?"One of the few perks of my job (teacher) is I get a long break in the summer. At this point I get torrent of abuse about how easy my job is how overpaid and underworked I am. I’m not but this post isn’t about my job. With all this free time I hoped […]
Read more "5 things that stop me being a world renown author."Edit 16/9/16 – Just noticed a few recent views of this old post. I would just like to say have have significantly re-written this chapter several times this version is rubbish! I promised myself if I got over 100 views in one day I would post chapter 1 of my book, unfortunately this happened yesterday […]
Read more "A True Wizard – Chapter 1"I don’t normally write this sort of thing it’s a tad too personal. Obviously it’s not been cured by using a quill. I wouldn’t want you to get the wrong impression either, being dyslexic is not the end of the world. Although it’s classed as a disability it’s a long way from being the worst. […]
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