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My Writing.    I added 45880 words to my novel. I wrote 8 articles for Divine, of which 7 were published. Blog posts: 50 Number of days I wrote on: 365 I also enjoyed three days of the Melbourne Writers Festival. My Novel Writing. I started the year thinking I had a couple of chapters to write to finish my novel. Yeah right. About 24 chapters later, I am finally sure I am writing the last chapter. In a way, I am glad it has taken so long to get to the end as I was having problems working out how to bring it thematically to a conclusion. I always knew how the novel would end plot wise, but it took me until chapter 105 to figure out how to complete the theme or concept of the novel. The manuscript currently has 213,558 words.     My Reading Year. I seemed to be always too tired to read at night, so I should be happy that I actually managed to read 11 books. But I ain’t. Why Do I Write? A post on Google asked the ...

Books Once again, I did not read many books this year, but the ones I read were nearly all very good science-fiction. As two books were from the same series, you would expect one of them to be my favourite book, and it was: Wool by Hugh Howey. This is the first time a self-published ebook has been my favourite book of the year. I also read Wools’ prequel, Shift, published by Random House. As I noted in my review of Shift , I thought it better written than Wool . I wonder if this is due to the input of an editor at Random House or just Hugh Howey becoming a better writer, or a combination of both. Wool and Shift are both a series of novellas set in a huge underground silo. Wool is the better due to its introducing the claustrophobic and paranoid world of the silo, and its stories are slightly more interesting than Shifts. I loved the tension and flawed characters in both books. The equally brilliant The Twelve , by Justin Cronin, is thus relegated to the third ...

  Science Fiction in 2012. Science fiction has not had a great year in television and movies. No Inception or Moon was released this year. No Torchwood made it on to the small screen and Doctor Who mainly sucked again. But the lack of quality on the big and small screen was more than made up for by what I was reading. I read some great science fiction this year. On the Idiot Box . Even though I have access to the sci-fi channel on Foxtel, I was thinking there was very little new science fiction on the small screen this year. That was until I thought about it, it was more a matter of their being anything to rival Torchwood or The X-Files. This year I watched: ·          Alcatraz ·          Terra Nova ·          Doctor Who ·          Warehouse 13 ·       ...