Writing ‘Release The Stars’ – Day 11
I posted this screenshot on Twitter today at 11.30AM, after I had typed the two most satisfying words in a writer’s life: The End. A heavy rain shower woke me up at 4.30AM this morning (it’s rainy season in Hong Kong) and instead of trying to get back to sleep, I just got up and […]
Writing ‘Release The Stars’ – Day 10
I’m so close to the end of Release The Stars now, I think I might be suffering from (wholly imaginary, I’m sure) Finishing Fear Syndrome. After a decent morning (where I did start later than usual, but the words flowed nicely), I only managed one more session after lunch. I just blocked. It’s a bit […]
NEW RELEASE: Opposites Attract
My first idea after brainstorming my story for Opposites Attract was to get a very messy person together with someone prone to OCD, but then I watched the movie Swimming Pool, featuring a very uptight Charlotte Rampling and an extremely sensually portrayed Ludivine Sagnier and I became slightly obsessed. I started dreaming of a lesbian plot […]
Writing ‘Release The Stars’ – Day 9
Yesterday was one of those days when word count obsessions and staying ahead of schedule paid off massively, as I spent most of Friday on the sofa, producing 0 words. It happens. I won’t say I didn’t experience any guilt for not even trying to write a single word, but that’s just how it is sometimes. […]
Writing ‘Release The Stars’ – Day 8
Today was not as heroic as yesterday, but well within expectations. Everything is still on schedule and my manuscript has now reached 46.000 words. This is a short novel (the goal is 60.000 words) so I can already smell the finish line, which doesn’t help with my focus. If, however, I have two good writing […]
Writing ‘Release The Stars’ – Day 7
The paperbacks of French Kissing: Season Two finally arrived today. (They were on a slow boat to HK, I think.) Anyway… I broke my word count record again today! I’m calling it an 8k day, but officially I wrote 7883 words, bringing my manuscript to 40.000 words. I’m super happy with this, even though I’m […]
Snippet from ‘Fit for Forty’
With all the blogging about writing Release The Stars, I haven’t yet posted a snippet from my story Fit for Forty, out now in Ylva’s erotica anthology Don’t Be Shy. This story is set on a hike, and the narrator is not having the best time of her life, until they reach the top… 😉 When […]
Writing ‘Release The Stars’ – Day 6
First things first. The lovely Clare Lydon interviewed me for the Lesbian Book Club podcast, and you can listen to our chat here >> The radio show we recorded yesterday (it’s called The Sex Crystals) was really great fun. It ended up being more about lesbian sex than lesbian erotic literature (even though they made […]
Writing ‘Release The Stars’ – Day 5
While I would say that my #1 piece of advice to every writer is: Stay Off The Internet, Damn It! I have to admit that today I didn’t follow my own advice. I cracked around 10 and checked my e-mails and Twitter (and Facebook…) Fortunately, a small fix was enough to get me going again […]
Writing ‘Release The Stars’ – Day 4
Would it be rude to just upload a picture of ‘my numbers’? 😉 I woke up at 4 this morning, completely obsessed with this story. I stayed in bed brainstorming for another hour, trying to remember my ideas by attaching them to easy to remember words or abbreviations like SMS (which stood for strap-on, manly […]