NaNoWriMo 2020: Day Fifteen

November 15, 2020November 15, 2020 Peter Germany Books, Cat, Home Office, Horror, Horror Writer, Insperation, Life, Nanowrimo, Podcasts, Reading, Writing Book, books, Cat, Goals, Horror, Horror Anthology, Indie Writer, Indie Writers, Life, NaNo, NaNo Kent, Nanowrimo, NaNoWriMo 2020, Reading, Short Stories, The Mando Method, Under The Weather, Word counts, Writer, Writer Life, Writers, Writers Community, Writers Journal, Writers Life, Writing, Writing Community, Writing Journal, Writing Life, Writing Space

Wow, halfway through the month already. I’ve had a chill out day today, which I need to stop doing. I need to get up on a day off, have breakfast, get dressed, get writing. Simple as that. No thinking I’ll watch an episode of this or that (today it was The Queen’s Gambit, which was lethal as I’ve all but watched it now). I still got 2317 today, but I could have got 3000 words done, if not 3500. I know I have the ability to do that when I’ve got a day off and I should be doing it. For the speed I can write at and the time I have, it is easily doable.

I was on a Facebook live event tonight with the Mando Method Podcast folks. It was a lot of fun and in the hour before it I managed to crack out about a 1300 words to add to the 1000 or so I’d already written throughout the course of the day. We talked about NaNoWriMo at the halfway point and how we were all progressing. We touched a few other topics as well. It was a lot of fun, its been a while since I laughed that hard. It was really good to talk to these folks in real time as well. Armand Rosamilia and Chuck Buda have been very supportive to myself and many other writers. Please give it a watch 😊

I’ve got one more days leave before getting back to my normal working week, so writing time will be cut down. But I can still get all the words done I need to, and more. I’m going to set myself a target of an hour at my desk a day. That’s head down and writing/editing. I’m not going to set word count goals at the moment, I want to get in the habit of spending that hour a day at the desk. My biggest enemy is myself and in particular my lack of discipline. That is something I need to overcome.

Under The Weather is the third book I’ve been published in. With my story, The Snow, I knew roughly what I wanted to do with it but it took a few little twists and turns along the way, but it was never a difficult write. One major element did change in the story which changed the entire theme of the tale. I still think it works, and it’s one that I’m really happy with.

Well folks, that’s me wrapping it for the night. I’m gonna watch a bit of tv and then read a little before bed. I’m aiming for an early start tomorrow.

Saturday 15th of February 2020

February 15, 2020 Peter Germany Audiobooks, Horror, Writing Futurama, Horror, The Simpsons, Under The Weather, Writer, Writers, Writers Community, Writers Journal, Writers Life, Writing, Writing Community, Writing Journal, Writing Life

Good evening, folks! Let’s get straight into it shall we? This month I’ve written 4824 words. I need to step up to try and get to my 500 words a day average but I’ve lost a little writing time each day so I need to compensate and find time to make that up.

The story I’m working on started out as a short story that was about something totally different to where it’s gone, but there are times we have to flow with the story. It makes me think of some TV episodes. The Simpsons especially. They’d start off with an episode where Bart gets obsessed with a yoyo and events lead to Mrs Krabappel confiscates it and gives Bart detention (by the way, I had a school assembly where people came in with Yoyo’s to impress and take our cash when I was at school in the 80’s). This leads to Bart sneaking into Mrs Krabappel’s desk to retrieve the yoyo and he finds a dating column that his teacher had posted. Futurama did this a lot as well. But it’s what I’ve ended up doing with this story in a way. The only difference is I started off with the intention to tell one story but didn’t even get into the meat of that one before I went off in a totally different direction. It’s a direction I’m really happy with and can see things slowly coming together.

It also started off as a short story and is now over 16k words. I’m not sure where it’s going to top out at but as usual, my gut is saying it’ll be about 30k.

Again, tomorrow I’m going to try and write a thousand words. I’m tempted to start working on another story as when I’m jumping to and throw between pieces I seem to get more done, but we’ll see.

My self pimping for today is for the Under The Weather anthology from Burdizzo Books and Back Road Books. This is one of my favourite stories I’ve written. I just let myself go and had a lot of fun with it. The story, The Snow, is about a man who goes to collect his wife from work in a shopping centre as a vicious snow storm hits. When they go to leave things begin to go very wrong.

There are a lot of other amazing stories in this collection to, including one that still freaks me out to this day (try to guess which!), and I’d be super grateful for anyone checking it out. Here’s the link. It’s also the first of my work that’s been made into audio which thrilled me big time.

Sunday 28th July 2019

July 28, 2019 Peter Germany Audiobooks, Books Back Road Books, Burdizzo Books, Under The Weather, Writer, Writers Community, Writers Life, Writing, Writing Community, Writing Journal, Writing Life

Good afternoon folks. I’ve been trying to write for a couple of hours and have got about twenty words written. I’m back to being a little stuck on the story I’m working on for the vampire book which isn’t helping. I also don’t have another active story I’m working on either. So I need to figure out a short story idea to get cracking with.

I have been doing some social media stuff today as well. A little promotional stuff mainly. It’s something I’ve not really sussed out yet but I’m getting there. The reason I’ve been doing some pimping is because tomorrow we have the launch party for an anthology of stories that are 84 words long. This is from one of the writing groups I am in, and this book is now live on Amazon. So if you can’t make the launch(check my social media for the details please) then please check out the book here.

One of the anthologies I’ve been published in, Under The Weather, is also now available as an audiobook. I’ve not read this yet, but I was lucky enough to read a couple of stories from other contributors and those are very good, and when you look at the table of contents its an impressive list of fine writers Burdizzo Books and Back Road Books gathered for this collection. So please, check it out.

That’s all for now. I’m hoping writing this will open my brain up a little and let me get some fiction sorted.

New Release: Under The Weather

August 26, 2018August 26, 2018 Peter Germany Books, Horror, Short Fiction Adam Millard, anthology, Back Road Books, Book, Burdizzo Books, C.H. Baum, Charity Anthology, Christopher Law, Dale Robertson, Dave Jeffery, David Court, Em Dehaney, Horror Anthology, Horror Book, James Jobling, Jeremy Peterson, Kitty Kane, Lex H.Jones, Mark Woods, Matthew Cash, Nathan Robinson, Paul Hiscock, Paul M. Feeney, Peter Germany, Phil Sloman, Resources For Autism, Short Stories, Under The Weather

Under the Weather from Burdizzo Books and Back Road Books is now out in ebook and paperback.

In this weather-themed anthology we have stories from C.H. Baum, David Court, Paul M. Feeney, Paul Hiscock, Kitty Kane, Dave Jeffery, James Jobling, Lex H. Jones, Christoper Law, Adam Millard, Dale Robertson, Nathan Robinson, Phil Sloman, Mark Woods, and myself.

It’s compiled and edited by Matthew Cash, Em Dehaney, James Jobling, and Jeremy Peterson.

When I saw the call for this anthology it really ignited my imagination. I think I had a good half a dozen decent story ideas which after brainstorming I got it down to one that really hooked me and I had a lot of fun with. (I’ve since written another short story from elements of one of those ideas).

This is a charity anthology, so all the proceeds go to Resources For Autism.

So, Please check this anthology out. I’ve put UK and USA Amazon Links at the bottom of this post so please check this one out.

Under The Weather UK

Under The Weather USA

New Release Coming: Under The Weather

August 19, 2018August 19, 2018 Peter Germany Books, Horror, Reading Adam Millard, Back Road Books, Burdizzo Books, C.H. Baum, Charity Anthology, Christopher Law, Dale Robertson, Dave Jeffery, David Court, Em Dehaney, Horror, Horror Anthology, James Jobling, Jeremy Peterson, Kitty Kane, Lex H.Jones, Mark Woods, Matthew Cash, Nathan Robinson, Paul Hiscock, Paul M. Feeney, Peter Germany, Phil Sloman, Resources For Autism, Under The Weather

Under the Weather from Burdizzo Books and Back Road Books will be released on the 26th of August 2018.

Featured in this anthology are: C.H. Baum, David Court, Paul M. Feeney, Peter Germany, Paul Hiscock, Kitty Kane, Dave Jeffery, James Jobling, Lex H. Jones, Christopher Law, Adam Millard, Dale Robertson, Nathan Robinson, Phil Sloman, and Mark Woods.

It is compiled and edited by Matthew Cash, Em Dehaney, James Jobling, and Jeremy Peterson.

All the proceeds go to Resources for Autism.

Please look out for my story ‘The Snow’ in this anthology. I’m really excited about this anthology, it has such an amazing line-up and I can’t wait to see what stories they’ve crafted for this weather-themed anthology.

Under The Weather is available for Pre-Order so please pop over to Amazon and check it out.

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