Recommended Reads!

Hello, petals!
It's Wednesday again which means it's time for recommended reads, that glorious weekly segment where I offer up a few links to things I've spotted around the internet and share them with you. In doing so, I aim to give you some different and new things to look at and experience. I hope that you enjoy them too.

Here are my picks for this week:

• Here's a blog with financial advice for anyone interested in being a screenwriter 
• If you DO want to consider screen writing then why not check out this cool script writing software
• Are you a vegetarian? Interested in trying veggie food? Here are some quick and easy vegetarian recipes
• Housing in your area too expensive? Why not look at this post on different housing alternatives? It might just persuade you that brick and mortar isn't the only way to live...
• Ever wanted to learn how to draw anime/manga? Here's a whole wealth of information on how to do that.

Writing in January.

I've been slowly, slowly getting back into writing. It's hard to make time for it when I have a job and I'd been busy working on the master edit for my collection of short stories. I've started outlining stuff for future script projects and in February I'll work on a novel again in NaNoWriMo style. I'll sit down and try to write around 50,000 words in a month. It's not going to be easy but I'll certainly try. If you're a writer then I hope you're writing. It's not easy but it's worth it.

The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword...

... but I don't think I'll be taking a biro to a duel any time soon.

Ok. It is 2014 and a new year brings new challenges. I get a lot of fellow writers here on my blog and so I feel it's good to share my journey as a writer for them and also for myself; it keeps me on track of everything.

This year I'm hoping to do some script work. I'm aiming to write a pilot for a TV show in the next few months. I'll probably try to write six episodes of a new TV series aimed at young adults. It's a project that I've been scribbling notes for since I started university. If I finish that this year then I'll pick up another script writing project I started though that script will be for a feature film.

I'm very interested in film and television so writing for that particular branch of media is, I feel, the next step for me. In my life I want to write novels and poetry and short stories but I'm also interested in working on TV shows, movies, comic book narratives. I want to do it all and I hope to always have a writing project on the go until I die.

I just wanted to update you and let you know a little more about the project I aim to work on in 2014.
I hope you're writing too - there's a story we all have to tell.