Recent content by Otherlands

Hi Joanna and welcome. I lived my life in Reading up to five years ago when I moved to Manchester. This is a great forum, full of ideas, help and nice people! :)

You mean that wasn't serious!! :) I start all my work this way. If I didn't I would find the very start of my work stilted and struggling to find it's pace. By starting a few pages prior, I come in with my characters actually in the middle of something

I actually write short stories, each involving a main character. It never has to be decent writing, or even a good plot. They just act as a little bit of back history to the particular character and I find it helps propel them into the main WIP

The first couple of episodes looked promising and I followed it, but gave up a couple of episodes ago, the interest just left me. My husband still watches it though. Similar thing happened with The Walking Dead. I liked the first series and couldn't wait till the second - two episodes in and I...

I have looked at Yarny and it looks very basic - which to me equates with ease of use and not a headache of a learning curve. But I am not getting into it as I purchased LSB and apart from looking at Scrivener free trial, will stick with LSB. I don't think I will ever master all the bells and...

Hi Blue Lotus. I have worked as a telephone tarot reader from home, that was before I started the shop. But I didn't like it to much, so I could probably do them online but wouldn't be keen on it. Shame you can't commute, I have a lot of people asking for palm readings so could give you some...

I do prefer the internet for broad searches of information. back in time I used to spend entire days in the library with a table creaking with the books I wanted to scour through. Now with search engines and Wiki, I feel that less time can be spent searching and more time writing. Obviously...

Back in the good old days of typewriters and correction fluid and carbon paper, I hammered out a couple of novels, I have no idea how I achieved this epic across four drafts! BUT I did find my organising abilities worked well with paper and index cards. With computers I find I cannot get myself...

I am located in Manchester, England. Back in April 2011 I started a business selling witchcraft and pagan supoplies and am a professional tarot reader. I have written a few short stories in the past, plus 2 novels which were never published and looking back, were complete trash. I am just...