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Met up with Jane this evening for a drink, a steak and ale pie (much, much yummy) in the Eagle & Child this evening. It was good to catch up again, after way too long a time. About 11 months…
Continue readingAfter a bit of lapse in the writing stakes, and a Writing Week last week that got taken over by various bits of web designing, I had a burst of writing this week, much of which was writtnen last Monday,…
Continue readingIt’s been somewhat of a weird weekend. Emma’s been working, and when I say working, I mean really working. Not just the Saturday morning and the little bit of on call, but like multiple call outs. Today, I think, she…
Continue readingToday has been another hot one, and a bit of day of two halves. This morning I spent the time doing some of the house cleaning, then I went into town to buy the veg and go to the opticians….
Continue readingI am now as up to date with the typed up version of my novel as I am with the handwritten manuscript, and so can give an accurate wordcount of where I am, which is, extremely encouraging. 25701 / 80000…
Continue readingI’m continuing to enjoy writing the story of Mr Tumnal and I am making good progress with it. Having decided to split the story into parts (probably four) I’ve now finished part one and are on the cusp of the…
Continue readingFollowing on from a successful writing week, I am back to the kind of writing which is more akin to snatching moments. These, most frequently, come at lunch, after the others have left, just finding enough time to get one…
Continue readingIt being the school holidays, it made the return to work a little easier. After my day in the garden yesterday I was tired and achey this morning and not really that with it, thankfully the traffic was light and…
Continue readingBeing Good Friday, I wasn’t expecting to get any writing done. Whilst it was still fine, I headed outside after breakfast to clean out the bunnies and the chickies whilst Emma hoovered, and then the inlaws arrived for a cup…
Continue readingI woke int day four of my extended Easter holidays and writing week with the kind of sunny morning that I had been hoping for all week. Blue sky and sunshine definitely put in the music for getting up, for…
Continue readingA little more procrastination, a little more productivity! Day Three of my writing week started off in a very similar way as previous days, with a bit of shelf-oiling before I headed back to the garage to sort boxes. It…
Continue readingAfter a bit of a slow start, I had a productive morning. Mind you, whilst it was productive, it was far from the dream of encasing oneself in a room of book and submerging into a sea of newly written…
Continue readingA quote, hot off the press, so to speak, from Mr Tumnal. One, that I think all my publishing friends will appreciate: ‘The rest of the day was spent trying to get an issue makeup off which is not made…
Continue readingA couple of weeks ago, a spot of norovirus wiped out my creativity for a week, and its taken me a while to get back into my writing stride since then. This lunchtime, after a nice chat with Maggie and…
Continue readingMr Tumnal continues to delight and entertain me. I’ve just written the closing scen to chapter ten, in which we get a marvelous blend of the real and imaginary lives showing themselves… 16815 / 80000 words. 21% done!
Continue readingHave you ever been walking, cycling, or driving around town wishing that they would do something awesome there, or regretting that that row of streets was ever demolished? Have you ever had ambitious plans that would be so utterly fantastic…
Continue readingIn recent week’s I’ve now had two people read the first slice of Mr Tumnal. And both Jane and Emma have loved it. Which is really encouraging for me as I write it, and enjoy it, and find myself living…
Continue readingWay back, last summer, when I was still embarking on Mr Tumnal’s curious story, Jane pointed me in the direction of two excellent quotations, or epitaphs to my story. The first from J.K.Rowling: “Of course it is happening inside your…
Continue readingI had a dream last night which was alarming, inspiring and impossible all at the same time. I had obviously sent an early draft of my novel to Ros to read, which I haven’t, I’ve sent it to Jane (so…
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