It all ended so fast. DONE! Today, at 17:20PM, I finished my trilogy here under the dome the @Library_Vic reading room. ???#AmWriting pic.twitter.com/ARn4oQr9jQ — I H Laking (@IHLaking) March 23, 2016 It’s weird how time can past so quickly, and you don’t even realise you’re about to lose something you’ve cherished until the moment is upon you. I finished my novel series this week, and […]
Novel Writing 14: Overtime.
75,000 words. Overnight I officially hit a new word count milestone, marking my third novel as my longest yet – and with around twelve chapters to go (by my approximation), there’s no sign of things letting up anytime soon. Current estimates put me in around the 100,000 word mark(!) before editing. Considering that I was wondering about splitting this novel in half at one stage, […]
Novel Writing 13: The Home Stretch.
Sometimes it feels like I’ve been running for a long time. http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view5/3770248/forrest-gump-football-run-o.gif It was almost a year to the day that I started writing my first novel. Since then, I’ve written over 210,000 words. Scarily, that means I’m now in the home stretch. Bringing everything together at the end of this trilogy has been about as challenging as I figured it would be. There are multiple […]
The Right Result: A New Short Story.
Happy Monday, everyone! Today, I’m pleased to share my latest short story with you – conscious that I haven’t posted a lot of new work of late, with my continuing focus on my novel drafts. The Right Result is a short story I’ve entered in the NYC Midnight short story competition. As such, there were specific criteria: the story had to be under 2,500 words, […]
Novel Writing 12: My Plotting & Pacing Process.
I’m now over 25,000 words into the first draft of my latest novel. As things continue to come together, I’ve been thinking about the techniques I use to bring my plot together and keep it punchy. Before I started writing my current trilogy, I sat down and worked through a series of world-building exercises, which helped me to create the topography and setting of the Empire. My […]
