The world from my little corner
A couple of months ago, I started writing a short fanfiction story in the Star Trek universe. It was my very first attempt at writing both fanfiction and science fiction, so it was an interesting little exercise. USS Montgomery was short, only some five and a half thousand words, but it told a nice little…
One year and some twenty-three thousand words from the beginning of this project, the killer of The Body in the Building has been revealed! But… I’m an author, and this is what I (try to) do for a living. After writing the first fourteen chapters publicly, you will have to read the book to find…
In the words of the theme song for Star Trek: Enterprise, it’s been a long road, gettin’ from there to here. It has been that. I checked when I first started working on my #TwitterFiction project, and it was the 3rd of March last year. Just shy of one year since inception to near publication.…
The next chapter was a little like the calm after the storm of excitement that happened in Chapter 12. It took a little longer to write, three weeks as opposed to the two weeks that it took to write the previous one. I was also busy with work and the kids on school holidays, but…
Just over two weeks after the completion of Chapter 11, Chapter 12 is now done! I seem to be back on track with The Body in the Building and things are progressing well. Chapter 12 was when the action really started to fire up. Nat’s life has gone from being in possible danger to very…
Read the story! While I have published a couple of books, and am working on my third book via my #TwitterFiction project, most people who know me also know that I am a massive science fiction fan, in particular, Star Wars and Star Trek. I am very much enjoying writing “The Body in the Building”…
Anyone who has followed me over the past year would be aware of my Twitter Fiction project. No doubt, they would have seen me charge ahead for a couple of months, then get more sketchy with my writing, before finally grinding to a halt some five months ago. As in my recent post, I’ve climbed…
I’d like to say that I have had important reasons for not writing much in the past few months. I could say that I got busy with training for my 2nd Dan black belt in Taekwondo. I could shuffle my feet and say that I got busy with work and some software development projects. While…
I can’t believe that a year has gone by since I released my very first book, “The Map in the Fortune Cookie!” For as long as I remember, I always wanted to write. I never thought I could, so I never did. But one day, about eighteen months ago, I decided that I would try.…
I can safely say that the last few weeks haven’t been my best for consistency. I went through a period of writer’s block, then a week of frenetic activity. Unfortunately, I found myself completely drained after that week of writing three chapters and made very little progress this past week. There is a lesson here…