The Structure of a Novel

While it may seem that each novel is completely different, most of them have an underlying structure that has a surprising number of similarities. This is the basic structure I use for my novels, so I’m going to demonstrate it using those. I’m willing to...

Deleted Scenes

Last week, I took my daughter to see the new Disney movie, Frozen, and a new fan was born. Since then, everything has been about Frozen. We’ve sewn an Elsa dress, and the latest fun was to download the album from the movie. We paid extra for the extended album,...

Reckless Recon – An Update, and A New Beginning

Well, progress on Reckless Recon has been going pretty well for the last couple of weeks. My frustration with realising I had to change a lot of chapters I’d written, combined with the release of Twin Curse, meant I didn’t get much written for a while, but...

Researching Reckless Recon

It’s easy to think that fiction books, even more so sci-fi or fantasy, which are, after all, from made up worlds, don’t involve much research. And it’s true, compared to something like historical fiction, they don’t. I don’t need to...

SFR Brigade Presents #11

Well, nearly half way through NaNoWriMo! Writing progress is not going as well as I’d hoped, due to many real life tasks getting in the way. But I’m not stopping writing, even though I’m nowhere near my NaNo goal. I’m enjoying these two...