I'm really, actually, definitely done with my zero draft now. After adding a few more chapters, it now stands at ~32k words. Ready to start the 1st prose draft!
I know it's a thing we're supposed to do, but does anyone actually take a break between drafts? Cos I just finished a draft yesterday and I want to start a read-through NOW
Thought I was done with my zero draft, nope - just added 2 more chapters to fatten out the middle. It now stands at ~29k words. Also finalised all the character names. Ready to begin the next draft!
After 6 months of stolen moments on the weekends, I've completed a "zero draft" of my latest book. Word count, 26.5k. I'm absolutely loving writing this book, and if you want to know what it's about, all I will say is, it's a bit spicy and it has dragons!
🌙✨ Experience the legendary “Clair de Lune” by Claude Debussy, paired with the original Disney animation that was nearly lost to history.
Originally created for the 1940 classic Fantasia, this breathtaking sequence was ultimately left on the cutting room floor due to time constraints. For more than half a century, it remained tucked away in the archives—until a nitrate print surfaced, allowing it to be fully restored in 1992.
What you’re witnessing is a delicate fusion of Debussy’s gentle, dreamlike composition and the height of 1940s Technicolor artistry—a “sonorous portrait” of calm and beauty that nearly vanished from history. 🏛️🎶💎
#clairdelune #debussy #disneyhistory #fantasia #classicalmusic
suzanne collins was 46 when she wrote the hunger games. philip pullman was 49 when he wrote northern lights. diana wynne jones was 53 when she wrote howl's moving castle. you'll be fine if you dont get a nyt bestseller by 20 chill out babe life doesn't end in your 30s
There I was, enjoying and feeling motivated already by watching the Netflix docu series "Arnold", when right at the end, Arnie says, "Let's get back to work"... Type of thing my Dad used to say to me! Bawled my eyes out! Thanks, @Schwarzenegger, gonna go conquer the world now.
More of my snow footage, as featured on Winterwatch, BBC2, last night ❄️
If you have access to BBCiPlayer, your can watch the full winter snow scene sequence at 55mins in 👉
https://t.co/IknYRHYfFp
I'm thinking about a Romantasy standalone with dragons. It was just a filed-away idea that I wasn't doing anything with. But this weekend I bought a NEW NOTEBOOK for it and now the MCs have NAMES and it has a TITLE ahhhhh this is going to be a thing, isn't it?