Diary for 'The Little's Voyage' 09/01/2009 THE LITTLE'S VOYAGE was completed today at 07:46. Finished work is approximately 205,600 words. Work will begin on tidying and editing over the next week or so. Decision needs to be made as to whether 'Danny and the Cold Xmas,' or 'Within the Heart of Time - part 1' is the next project I was be getting on with. Both of these stories have been started, with 'Within The Heart of Time' being approximately 95% complete. Danny and the Cold Xmas is approx 10% complete. Some studying to be done this month, so will use that time to decide whcih the next project will be. Awaiting further drafts of cover for Cobwebs of Pearl. 08/01/2009 Chapter 38 through to 47. Chapter 47 in progress. A lot of effort put in in the last few days. Deadline to complete 'The Little Voyage' is Friday 09th Jan, before I go out for a drink! Some tidying up and correcting in The Little's Voyage. Awaiting further drafts of cover for Cobwebs of Pearl. 01/01/2009 Chapter 36 completed and Chapter 37 began. Some tidying up and correcting in The Little's Voyage. Awaiting further drafts of cover for Cobwebs of Pearl. Currently experiencing email issues (Bulldog problems again!), and do not know if the work has been sent out in the last few days. Began work on a track called 'Ghost of Tomorrow.' It will remain on hold while I concentrate on the The Littles Voyage. 29/12/2008 Some tidying up and correcting in The Little's Voyage. 25/12/2008 Happy Christmas! Cobwebs will likely be available in Jan\Feb 2009. Work continues on 'The Littles Voyage,' which I hope to have completed before April 2009. 20/12/2008 1st draft of cover for COBWEBS OF PEARL arrived. I like the font used and I like the back cover, which uses the front image as a watermark. Have requested 2 further samples, using different colour of comet glow. 18/12/2008 1st draft of cover for COBWEBS OF PEARL is due tomorrow. 16/12/2008 THE LITTLES VOYAGE - current W.I.P. Working on chapter 35 today. Word count for the day is 969 words. 1st draft of cover for COBWEBS OF PEARL is due tomorrow. 15/12/2008 THE LITTLES VOYAGE - current W.I.P. Working on chapter 34/35 today. Word count for the day is 7,242 words. Some major discoveries made by the reader in these chapters :-) 1st draft of cover for COBWEBS OF PEARL is still not available. 14/12/2008 THE LITTLES VOYAGE - current W.I.P. Working on chapter 34 today. Word count for the day is 781 words. 1st draft of cover for COBWEBS OF PEARL is still not available. Resubmitted manuscript with additional text in final chapter (important info needed to be placed there in connection with future book\story) 12/12/2008 THE LITTLES VOYAGE - current W.I.P. Working on chapter 33/34 today. Word count for the day is 1576 words. 1st draft of cover for COBWEBS OF PEARL is still not available. 11/12/2008 THE LITTLES VOYAGE - current W.I.P. Working on chapter 33 today. Word count for the day is 3,380 words. 1st draft of cover for COBWEBS OF PEARL is still not available. Spent the morning collecting images to use to make a short story to accompany one of my songs. 10/12/2008 THE LITTLES VOYAGE - current W.I.P. Working on chapter 32 today. Word count for the day is 3,833 words. 1st draft of cover for COBWEBS OF PEARL is still not available. 09/12/2008 THE LITTLES VOYAGE - current W.I.P. Continuing work on chapter 32 today. Primarily concentrated on editing\tidying previously written passages. Pre-occuppied with another matter of late but that seems to be sorted now and can concentrate fully on the novel. Word count for the day is 371words. 1st draft of cover still not available, as of yet. 08/12/2008 THE LITTLES VOYAGE - current W.I.P. Working on chapter 32 today. Word count for the day is 3,321words. Awaiting 1st draft of cover form designers, expected in the the next few days. 05/12/2008 THE LITTLES VOYAGE - current W.I.P. Completed Chapters 29, 30, 31, and carried out some editing/revision. These chapters are relatively small and 'Unveiling the Future' is a gamble in its placement. Normally, the contents of this chapter would have been placed close to a particular event in the story. Howerver, I am trying a different approach and am including it earlier. For those who know the story and characters, this will be a bit of a shock... because they will have to read this and then continue the story whilst they are aware of a traumatic event which has to take place. Word count for the day is 7,267 words. 04/12/2008 There's alot happening today!!!!! All the files for Cobwebs of Pearl are now in the hands of the designers, so work can begin on the cover, etc I am able to continue work on The Littles Voyage now that Cobwebs of Pearl is at this stage, and I have started today, (continuing from where I was up to, as well as writing an end scene for when we have to say a final goodbye to one of the characters! But which one?). There are now 68 Songs in the song section. A song called 'You Know, I Know' was written and added today - along with the chords. 22/11/2008 Final work is being carried out on 6 black and white images which will sit with in the finished novel. 11/11/2008 Artwork collected and is ready to go to cover design stage. Holding back for possibly 2 weeks while some other artwork is produced. At this time it is expected that the finished book will contain a number of black and white drawings compiled by Kat Wilson after she completed her own reading of Cobwebs of Pearl. 05/11/2008 Artwork for the front cover of Cobwebs of Pearl is completed and awaiting collection. The artwork will be passed to Design Company for production\design of the final book cover. Once this stage is completed then writing will recommence on THE LITTLE'S VOYAGE - which was placed on hold at the end of July 2008 (the original expected completion date for the cover artwork.) Originally, it had been planned to include black and white images within the book itself. Possibly 8 images in total, spread thoughout the book, with each depicting a scene from the story. Unclear at this stage whether this will still be happening.
31/10/2008 The ending of COBWEBS OF PEARL has been slightly extended - to give the reader a taster of what will happen later in the overall story.
Artwork for Cobwebs may be delayed - rescheduled from end of July to the 25/10/2008 |