Writing A Novel - Oops No Words | Chris Bissette's Blog
This post is really just to keep myself honest and also make sure that I touch this project in some way everyday even if I didn't actively work on the writin...| Chris Bissette's Blog
Ever since I began being Very Online - which was some time in the early 00s - I've always felt this need to compartmentalise everything. My interests are many and varied, and I have my fingers in many pies, and for some reason I've always felt I should put each Thing that I do into its own box where it doesn't touch anything else.| Chris Bissette's Blog
After setting up Zettlr on my PC this morning and realising that it may well be my ideal writing environment, I decided that what I really want is to have identical environments on every machine I write on. That means my PC (done), my windows laptop (done), my Linux laptop (not done yet, as I haven’t received the machine yet), and my Chromebook.| Chris Bissette's Blog
A couple of years ago I posted a few things about my experiments using Markdown and Pandoc to produce quick PDFs that share styling with the properly typeset products I release for A Dungeon Game. That workflow hasn't really changed at all over the past two years, and while I'm happy with the results, I've never been particularly pleased with the actual process of making these things. I'm not a coder and I'm not comfortable in the command line, and I've had a sticky note on my monitor for two...| Chris Bissette's Blog
My writing career has been fairly spotty. I’ve been writing - and trying to sell my writing - since I was a literal child. When I was about 9 years old I wrote a “novel” (I think it was probably around 12,000 words long - impressive for a 9 year old, but not a novel) that I’ve long since lost, which my mum helped me submit to Penguin. Obviously Penguin don’t take unagented submissions, and certainly not from children, but neither of us knew that in the 1990s. We packed a short manus...| Chris Bissette's Blog
So these blogs died off quickly, didn’t they? The reason for that - which I think is likely quite obvious - is that progress on the novel stalled.| Chris Bissette's Blog
I don't actually know if anybody is reading this blog regularly, because I don't look at analytics. Regardless, my new game Blood In The Margins just went live on BackerKit and is fully funded. So that's something. If you're reading and you feel like checking it out, I'd appreciate it.| Chris Bissette's Blog
Another day of no words on the novel, because I wrote a 4,500 words story to go with the game I'm launching on Thursday. Part of the problem of being a full time writer is that writing for pleasure uses the same muscles as your job, and sometimes it's just not possible to do both. Today was one of those days (though maybe I'll try and get 20 minutes of the novel done before bed, just to touch it).| Chris Bissette's Blog
I woke up at 6:30 this morning and decided to fit some writing in before my partner woke up. I aimed to do four 20 minute Pomodoros. What I actually did was one 20 minute session and one 40 minute session, writing a little over 2,000 words in that time.| Chris Bissette's Blog
I hoped to get a few hours done this morning but time got away from me, and so I was only able to fit one set of three Pomodoros in. Still, I made good progress, and I’m happy that I was able to make the time for it.| Chris Bissette's Blog
This post is really just to keep myself honest and also make sure that I touch this project in some way everyday even if I didn't actively work on the writin...| Chris Bissette's Blog
