I've been away on a family trip to visit my son at university in South Wales. Despite this managed to publish three chapters of "A Healing Love" on Ream & complete chapter 23. The manuscript now surpasses 100,000 words.
Writing teenage characters involves balancing realism with readability. It's a challenge making teenage dialogue and actions believable yet engaging. Does my character, Paul, in the Paul Robertson Saga, navigate this delicate balance. Paul’s narrative, told from the future, allows for a more mature reflection on his teenage years, blending youthful mistakes with the skillset expected in a compelling story.
You can read the first four unedited chapters of "A Healing Love" on Ream Stories. As I progress toward the 30-chapter mark, subscribers will get early access to new chapters twice a week, possibly more. Sign up as a Postgraduate Student for $5/month to enjoy these exclusive updates, along with the full back catalogue and early blog post access.
Finishing a book is like running the London Marathon, using an Excel calendar to track events in the Westmouthshire universe. The timeline includes color-coded blocks for novels, novellas, and short stories from 2007 to 2014. This planning helps coordinate story details and timelines, offering a rough framework for my latest…
Today, I'm launching early access chapters of "A Healing Love," the fourth book in the Paul Robertson Saga, for top-tier members on my Ream Stories page. Unlike my usual practice of releasing polished and edited stories, these chapters are unfinished and subject to change. This approach aims to gather feedback…
When I was uploading my work to my Ream Stories page, I noticed there was a question that no other site has asked before when uploading work. “Was Generative AI used to write this story?” It sparked a question in my head—Is “using” AI cheating? And the answer to myself…
I'm happy to report that A Healing Love has now passed the 85,000-word mark and has overtaken The Truths We Live in terms of word count. It should overtake Eternally & Evermore soon (E&E is just under 87,000 words)
I launched a Patreon page for the release of A Wounded Heart and used it to release the book to subscribers, chapter by chapter, ahead of the eBook release. But after that initial release, I struggled to provide enough content to make it worth the subscription fee, so earlier this…
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