Getting Drastic

- by ria, on Friday, 11th February 2011, 11:24am

In case any one is interested, I just cut the first 5 chapters from book 1. It doesn’t get exciting until then. Now I need to come up with 15,000 words of a more exciting start for this book.

Why are beginnings so hard? I guess it’s because so much has to be introduced, and at the same time it has to be well written and engaging.

I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and working on my query has really made me see how dull the first five chapter were. Now to come up with something better.

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Change is Good

- by ria, on Wednesday, 5th May 2010, 1:01pm

“Change is good, but it’s not easy.”

The site’s been converted to wordpress. Not a simple task by any means. But I managed to port the design and css over with minimal hassle. As I write this, there are still a load of little things to be done, but the main layout is working and that’s what matters most.

EDIT: the main layout is still suffering growing pains. Bear with me if there are weird borders and divs are all over the place.

This site was always more of an art site, with less of a focus on writing. That is about to change. As my life goals and career path move closer to writing, I find that I have very little time for drawing any more. The gallery will still exist (as the art page), but it probably won’t be updated that often. No, the space to keep an eye on is the writing page. Expect short stories hopefully every few months. And here, on the main “loop” (as the wordpress people call it), there will be updates on my writing techniques, useful tips, and my learning progress. I’m not a seasoned writer by any means – I’m working on my first novel at the moment, with the aim of getting published sometime in the next 2 / 3 years.

So, this will mainly be a blog of my voyage into the world of publishing. And hopefully people will find me, and my posts will be helpful to them, and we all take the journey together.

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