Author: KokkieH

Song Title Challenge #24: Crosseyed and Painless – Talking Heads

It’s time for this week’s Song Title Challenge.

Write a short piece of fiction, around 300 words, using the song title as your story title but don’t listen to the song. You can pick your own genre or use the one suggested to me. Remember to link back to this post so I can find yours.

If you would like to suggest a song title for a future post, you can do so from the challenge page. You can also leave a suggestion on the Facebook page.

This week’s song is Crosseyed and Painless by Talking Heads and the genre is Horror/Thriller. Thanks to bumblepuppies for the suggestion.

Crosseyed and Painless

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On the half-way mark

I can’t believe that it’s already the halfway mark of National Novel Writing Month. While I’m not yet caught up on my words, as you can see from the image below it’s going much better than it did when I had made my last update.

For the past few days I’ve been managing a daily word count of over two thousand words and I’m catching up. At the moment I’m wrapping up the climax of the first act of my novel after which I’ll have to do a spot of planning again to incorporate the new ideas that have popped into my head while writing the first twenty-two thousand, which will include coming up with names for a couple of new supporting characters, but I don’t foresee any major problems and I hope to be caught up and maybe even ahead by Friday. (By the way, that’s one horrible run-on sentence I wrote there, isn’t it? I hope none of them have made it into the novel thus far.) Continue reading “On the half-way mark” →

There’s something I need to tell you

Friends, readers, random spambots crawling this blog, there’s something I need to tell you.

First, I’m a bit disappointed in you all. Here I say I have a very important announcement coming up and out of all 164 followers (of which, admittedly, more than a few don’t really exist) only Bumblepuppies cared to take a guess. Well, I can assure you my wife isn’t pregnant, and neither am I (though that would have been something, wouldn’t it?), but thanks for playing along.

My announcement is bigger than this. Actually, I’m not sure I should reveal this. The implications could potentially reverberate across all of space and time. Oh, well. Let me just tell you and what will be, will be. Here goes.

I’m the Doctor. Don’t believe me? Read on

A little extract from the WIP

I had a post planned for today on my experience so far with NaNoWriMo, but unforeseen circumstances stole two hours of writing time and I’m kinda on a roll, so I’m going to postpone that post for later. In the meantime, here’s an extract from a scene I wrote today. I’d love to hear what you think.

You should also go check out this post by Ava Jae on how she finished NaNoWriMo in just nine days. I don’t know about applying her strategy to my own writing, but still…respect!

Oh, and be sure to watch this space on Friday for a VERY IMPORTANT announcement. Trust me, you’re not gonna want to miss it.

But without further ado, this scene is entitled:

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Greatest Hits: Nessun Dorma – Giacomo Puccini

With the humblest of apologies, dear readers, I’m going to plead out for today’s Song Title Challenge. All my creative energies at present is being channelled into the novel and while I have a song title waiting in the wings, I am completely unable to think of anything to do with it, even if I ignore the genre. Bumblepuppies has me stumped for the moment.

To make up for it, I’m pointing you to the very first Song Title Challenge I did here. I posted this way back in May so I reckon a lot of you haven’t seen it yet. This particular challenge is also one of two that served as the inspiration for the current novel.

Enjoy, and if you’re up to it, take part yourself.

Song Title Challenge #1: Nessun Dorma by Giacomo Puccini