Writing a fantasy novel
I have started writing the first draft of my first novel. I have been working on the story for years now, but everything has finally slotted into place and it feels complete enough to actually write. I am considering calling it something other than Char Grilled: Volume One, the current working title, but that doesn't really matter right now. What matters is writing it.
Listening to the podcasts on Writing Excuses has been extremely helpful. The insight they give into the writing process is invaluable, and I feel much more confident and equipped as a writer now.
I am setting myself goals and will be setting aside a block of time every day in which to write. I am just going to blitz through and get the story written. Once I've got it all down on virtual paper I can then start to edit it.
In the past I have tended to get bogged down, trying to make each paragraph the best it can be before writing the next, but I am going to work a lot more sensibly this time, working in it in passes. It's just like drawing or painting: starting off with a rough sketch and refining it from there.
I'm planning on writing blogs here about my writing on a semi-regular basis, and I will also be copying everything worth saving across from the old chargrilled.fatalmelon.com site from when I was going to be doing it as a webcomic. I will also be changing both the current menu page at fatalmelon.com and the Char Grilled sub-site to redirect here to the blog.
Also, I'm trying out a new theme for the site. I'll probably edit it to be closer to the previous colour scheme and re-integrate the header images, but I like this one a lot more as a base to work from. Any feedback?
Good Governance
Politics fascinates me. Politicians, often not so much.
I read the papers - one of the perks of being a sales assistant in a newsagents is that I don't need to buy them first - and I often see the way things are run and think "I can do better than that!".
Now, I am aware that this is not necessarily so. But I figure that perhaps my observations - such as they are - maybe useful.
With that in mind, if I think of something, I'll write it up and post it, under the heading up there. ^^^^^
- Will
The Obligatory First Post
OK, so technically this isn't, but as it's a fresh start and I haven't posted yet, I reckon it counts.
3am is probably not the best time to be blogging, but after an hour of staring at the ceiling, I decided that there are more interesting things to do than sleep - for now, anyway.
The purpose of this site is to be a sandbox, and possibly also a soapbox.
I came up with an idea for a blog some while back. I came up with the nice, memorable name - a Pratchett reference, no less.
And then Richard went "Cool." and built the site.
And then... well... not much happened.
Sorry about that.
I'm an Ideas guy. I have hundreds of the things, floating around everywhere, cluttering up the place. Unfortunately, I'm not much good at doing anything with them.
I'm trying to change that now.
So, let's see if we can make something, eh?
-Will
Oops.
I just accidentally lost everything on here while moving the blog to it's new home, here at blog.fatalmelon.com. Oh well, at least I only lost the blog stuff. We didn't have anything particularly important or irreplaceable on here anyway.
Anyway, everything is fixed, some of it better than before, so onwards and upwards to greater things! 