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To Boldly Go…

ej — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:18:26 +0000

…where no man has gone before

When you work with words there are rules that you have to live by and, in particular, grammatical rules. The use of the apostrophe is a pretty simple one, but I see it used in error every single day. For example:

Your brilliant! No, you’re not!

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Day 30 – Failed

ej — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:16:35 +0000

That is all.

And so I am consoling myself with reading. I haven’t picked up a book or my Kindle since the beginning of November, and I’ve really missed it. I’ve had an urge, a constant inner nagging, to read some fantasy (it’s been too long!) and so I bought three new titles from three [...]

A Mountain to Climb

ej — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:57:59 +0000

She dreamed of a mountain in the shape of a pyramid. A mountain that sat in a landscape of green and rose high above the clouds, nestled in a pure blue sky. She stood at the bottom, her eyes searching as far as they could see, but she could not make out the summit. She [...]

The Rage of the Train

ej — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 23:07:52 +0000

The week didn’t start well. Tuesday – Day 1 – and, for reasons that don’t need to be documented, by the time I retired to bed I had written exactly no words. It was therefore really important that I started Day 2 well and, for the first time, I took the laptop out on the [...]

National Novel Writing Month

ej — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:33:08 +0000

After much consideration, I have decided to undertake NaNoWriMo again this year. After being sabotaged at the final hurdle last year, by the flu, I wanted to give it another go and see if I can complete this time around. Initially, I wanted to work on developing one of my current projects as [...]

Ctrl Alt Delete

ej — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:05:09 +0000

It’s been a long time since I blogged. It’s been a long time since I did any writing, consistently. After Nano last year I had a small hiatus that turned into a long break, as those hiatuses (hiati?) generally do when you’re a writer. But I’ve been suffering with a serious attack of self-questioning – [...]

A Brief History of Witches

ej — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:10:45 +0000

“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.” ~ William Shakespeare

Evil.

Old.

Bag-faces.

The end.

But, seriously, they have haunted and disturbed me all my life. And for the purposes of this blog post, when I say Witch I mean the childhood image that comes to mind of the fantasy-based black-pointy [...]

Nano Round-Up

ej — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:13:45 +0000

Well, I didn’t complete the novel in time as over the final weekend I was laid up in bed with the flu. I do intend to complete before year end though and will post an excerpt when done. I’ll just have to wait until next year to be a Nano winner *sniff*.

“She needed to sew her eyes back on.”

I seem to have come up against a wall. I know where my story is going and I know what I want to write, I just can’t seem to get the detail on to the paper. The story and characters dictate quite a fast pace and [...]