Category‘Broken Branches’

The writing hasn’t begun again because the ideas I’ve got for this ‘near future society’ needs to be hammered out.  I’m trying to keep things simple but this one difference has knock-on effects which need to make sense for the whole point of the book to be understood. I’ve changed how I’m going to start

It may seem like a tough decision to pull the plug on a novel 7 chapters (14,600 words) long but since I first thought about scrapping it and having slept on it, it seems like the best thing to do. The problem wasn’t the themes or ideas, it was the approach I took with the

I’ve finished the first chapter of my second novel and I’ve also got a title for it. All this has happened in a couple of weeks and the first three chapter plan I had before starting has totally been thrown out of the window. One of Elmore Leonard’s writing tips was ‘Do give the work

Four months late but I finally cracked open the laptop and fired up Word, created a new file and wrote ‘Chapter 1’. I don’t have a title which is annoying as the file is saved as ‘Novel 2 – 1st Draft’ but it’s better than no file at all. I have a basic idea, plenty