inspirational weather – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:49:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg inspirational weather – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 The lowering gloom of the British Bank Holiday https://shepline.com/2012/04/09/the-lowering-gloom-of-the-british-bank-holiday/ https://shepline.com/2012/04/09/the-lowering-gloom-of-the-british-bank-holiday/#respond Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:49:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=2079 Back in the day when I was still single and writing The End Of All Worlds the weather as exhibited this Easter Monday was the weather to inspire me. A bank holiday meant a bonus day to devote to writing, and a the wild and the wet, and the oppressively grey with maybe a touch of the cold, and the bleak, was just the kind of weather to inspire my writing. At the time I thought that this kind of weather inspiration was something to do with the themes in my then current novel, but no, I’ve since discovered that the bleak and the oppressing inspires me to write in general. Not that today’s weather has been lashing rain and rumbling thunder, but its still had that power over me.

Have spent the day, reading, and writing about my reading, and working through my illustrations to decide which chapter they should head…

]]> https://shepline.com/2012/04/09/the-lowering-gloom-of-the-british-bank-holiday/feed/ 0 On the second day of advent: the fog decendeth https://shepline.com/2009/12/02/on-the-second-day-of-advent-the-fog-decendeth/ https://shepline.com/2009/12/02/on-the-second-day-of-advent-the-fog-decendeth/#respond Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:36:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/on-the-second-day-of-advent-the-fog-decendeth/ This morning proved to be damp and foggy, but no less atmospheric and inspirational, as trees loomed out of the grey mist as faded silhouettes, and a determined sun tried to break through a fractured sky.

Foggy Mornings

My work on Mr Tumnal continues well. A downside to working in an environment where people talk to me at lunch times and have a job that engages me is that I have less time for writing during my lunch breaks. That said, I’ve got myself a little routine to give myself a little time to get a few hundred words down, and a few hundred words every day is progress.

8866 / 80000 words. 11% done!

Louis Tumnal’s world is weird one, where his ‘Oxford’ (or Wren Hoe as he knows it), is an Oxford with trams, and a metro system underneath the colleges, but at the same time the characters play with very real technology; Nikon D40s and Facebook use. It’s all very natural as I write it, but I do wonder how much I should be using these technologies to tell the story – should I instead be making up camera manufactories and going for generic/fictional social networking? Its an interesting question one, and one that I’m still perusing.x

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