I’ve finished the first one. Well, finished is a loose word. I mean I’ve finished the first draft of Omnia Suo Loco.
It’s a ghost story. Sort of. Anyway, it features a spooky statue that keeps moving.
I guess I should credit Dr Who and the Weeping Angels, but I didn’t set out to write a piece that included a moving statue. Funny how some stories just insist on writing themselves. Spooky!
One down, another one to go. #30days30shorts
I spent most of yesterday writing and re-writing the same scene. It is an important scene and one I wanted to get right. This morning, I went back to the same darn scene and started reworking it again. After a while, I realised I was never going to make my word count target today if I didn’t stop fiddling.
NaNo writing tip number seven
If you find yourself getting stuck on the same old scene – STOP. Move on. Write the next scene. Or skip to another part of the story, even further ahead. You can always come back later. Don’t worry about it. Just keep moving forward.
My 2013 NaNo novel is called Chasing Credit. I’m aiming for 60,000 words by the end of November.
Writers all need a little help sometimes and, to get your creative thoughts whirling, I have rounded up eight of the best prompt sites on the Internet.
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I put together the photographs of the Olympic Torch passing through my home town of Stamford and managed to produce a mini film, using Windows Movie Maker on my laptop.
This is the first time I have used the program and it was pretty straightforward. Nonetheless, it took me six hours of messing about to make a two-minute film. Then took me another hour to find a piece of suitable music with a Creative Commons license.
I put the finished video up on YouTube and would have sent it to the BT Olympic Storyteller site, but their site appears to be down at the moment.
Here it is: Continue reading “Olympic Torch – a film”
Time to boast? So sorry, but yes, I won the Crime Story Competition in Writing Magazine and my short story was published in the January 2012 edition of the magazine.
I won the Crime Story Competition in Writing Magazine and my short story was published in the January 2012 edition of the magazine.
Ruth Livingstone 