Sarah's Writing Blog

A quick post for you…

I’ve been away for Christmas, hence the lack of posting - hope everyone had a good one! While away I kick started the third Portal book (although Nano 2008 is still there in my head and I’ll get back to that soon too.) But it’s been easier than I thought to get back into the mind [...]

Did it again…

Completed Nano again, for the fourth year running and I love what I’ve produced. It really took on a life of its own and it’s at a point where it could be left as the short first book in a series - which would work well seeing as I had a younger audience than the [...]

Where did he come from?

I seem to have found a Shepherd looking after some stray sheep that aren’t pure bred and were to be culled…. I have no idea where he came from but I have a feeling he may be significant. Characters that present themselves and demand their story be told are fun to write while they drive me nuts! Meanwhile [...]

“A word after a word after a word is power.”

“A word after a word after a word is power.” Margaret Attwood. Thank you Gayle Brandeis for that, via the Nano Pep Talk emails. Now that makes a lot of sense today and that email hit my inbox at just the right time. I’ve hit the week three wall. It happened last year and I think the [...]

Word wars make for successful nano’ing

More from Lolcats How does a word war work? First you need to find a writing buddy, or someone to war with. Then you sit down together - or at home but both on msn and one of you sets a timer for 5, 10 or 15 mins, or whatever time you agree but make it [...]

Multiple projects.

I have a writing buddy. We challenge each other, we compete and we also support each other in our writing. But we write in very different ways and an email from NaNo made me think about it this morning. Dear NaNoWriMo Author, I know what you’re doing. You’re thinking about cheating, aren’t you? Ha! Caught you! Come [...]

The Sheep told me to do it…

Now, where was I…. Oh yes, Salisbury - where Peter, and new friend Colette, ended up spending the night near the cathedral and where Peter was told he was going the wrong way, by a sheep. Today they’re on the run again on stolen horses, sleeping in an abandoned cottage somewhere near Oxford, and heading roughly North [...]

It’s NaNo time again….

November is here and I’m writing like a mad thing again. It’s day nine today and the NaNoWriMo forums have slowly come back up to speed after being clogged with the surge of new sign ups and heavy load that always happens during the first week or so. Now for my first Nano in 2005 I [...]

Happy Hallowe’en

More LolCats It’s November the 1st tomorrow, NaNo begins again for another year and I write at my fastest and hopefully produce some of my best ideas. NaNo was the start of the Portal series three years ago and has helped me write different things each time since. In 2006 it was more Portal work and [...]

And it’s all in place…

The Portal Sundered is fully on Amazon.com - all there, cover image, search inside, showing as In Stock, all present and correct. All that’s missing is a sales history. Not quite all in place on the listing on Amazon.co.uk bit it’s only a couple of days behind so it won’t be long. Still waiting for it [...]