Recent content by RK Wallis

I've written a few genres. Currently MG fantasy mystery :)

Welcome aboard @Stuart G :) Have you read Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennet? It's a fantasy crime thriller but really unique which sounds up your alley.

So true about that first draft and after is a fog of drafts. Nothing important, just a discussion on everyone's process :)

Hey all, I have a question: What do you count as one draft? For years, I counted "one draft" as one complete MS read through, whether structural changes or something else. Only this morning I decided that's too hard to track (it's always been hard to track). For my current MS, I'm...

Hi @Marta welcome aboard :) There's a wealth of content here, of all kinds. What interests you the most?

When the glass door slides open, you’re hit in the face with a blast of humidity, heavy with a waft of chlorine. Spread out before you is one long pool, divided into lanes under an arched roof. A line of orange cones hover each lane. The laughs and screams of hundreds of brats assaults your...

Great exercise! I'll join you :)

Put me down as a hopefully, please :)

Welcome back @DustinMax :) There have been a few upgrades. @AgentPete ?

I'm thinking of swapping to Apple Music too. So sick of my playlists turning into Spotify drivel..

I had a great writing week even though my word count hasn't shifted much. Typed THE END, fixed up emotional beats, streamlined the mystery (I hope readers can follow), added in answers to questions I raised, fixed up the parts I'd left markers to com back and fix and wrote the blurb. Probably...

starting to unpack my All is lost scene and the one before. I got them around the wrong way and don't want to screw up emotional beats. Give me strength!

The website looks awesome @tyes!!! Fab work :) Best of luck for 1 August.

So true, Trey! I've really slowed down now and I'm stitching together what I've written, also adding more emotional reactions and making sure the sleuthing tracks. Best climax I've ever written (and most fun!). I'm also going through the denouement and making it fit (was originally written as...

Welcome aboard @SteveO_NJ :) You've come to the right place! Love comedy in writing, can't wait to read yours.