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After a long period of silence I’m making excellent progress on The NovelTM, and having great fun getting into the mind of the man who married his imaginary friend. I’m loving how his two lives, the real, solitary one, and…
Continue readingI sent Jane the first 7 chapters of my new novel, Mr Tumnal, to have a read of. She loaded it onto her Kindle… …and it looks kind of neat… …I think I might be officially jealous. I want a…
Continue readingChapter 7 of Mr Tumnal’s story sees his two lives coming together. Does he live in a house with wife Amanda and daughter Sarah, or a flat by himself? And what hold does the misterious Miss Leroy have on him?…
Continue readingWith a burst of enthusiasm and a flame of inspiration this week I am another chapter down in Mr Tumnal’s curious story. In this latest chapter we visit the childhood life of Louis, and see how he and Amanda came…
Continue readingInspiration can come from the oddest places. Wildlife photographer Martin Goodey, tweeted this picture, and I immediately thought of Mr Tumnal, and his classroom windowsill with the little wren that comes and sandbaths whilst he marks books.
Continue readingI’ve started on chapter six of Mr Tumnal’s story. He sleeps in a house surrounded by a high Cotsworld stone wall, beyond which, the trams rattle through the night. Ever since holidays in Tallinn, Budapest and Timisoara, I’ dreamed of…
Continue readingFor year’s now I’ve had these idle dreams of how cool it would be if Oxford had trams and metros. I think it goes back to my Hungarian adventures and my love of the M1 metro in Budapest. Ever since…
Continue readingI’ve missed writing, you know, actually, creating anew a story. I did also like (for the most part) the process of editing and revisiong, but its still not the same as following your imagination and your creative mind on this…
Continue readingNow that I have begun chapter five, I am close to writing Mr Tumnal’s first meeting with Kathryn, the girl that is literally going to change his life; will rip him from his comfort zone of imaginative worlds and ficticious…
Continue readingI’ve been on the cusp of finishing up chapter four in Mr Tumnal’s story for a while now; always thinking I’m there to discover that actually there’s just that little bit further to go. This lunchtime I finally got there….
Continue readingI cycle past this house every day. In its stone gateposts, and long gravel drive, huge proportions tucked back from the busy main road behind mature trees and shrubs, the house is so clearly something from the page of the…
Continue readingI’ve been making steady progress with Mr Tumnal’s story this week, and as I do the details of his curious life are firmed up in my mind. It has bothered me that I don’t know exactly how this story is…
Continue readingMy lunchtime routine is settling down nicely. I have a bit of a read whilst I eat my lunch, and then write a bit more to Mr Tumnal afterwards. I don’t get a lot written – maybe a couple of…
Continue readingThomas is physically at work in Oxford, but is mentally in Louis Tumnal’s house in Wren Hoe (a university town on the edge of the Cotswolds)…
Continue readingAs I get myself deeper into writing my new novel, I’m finding myself increasingly in the head of Louis Tumnal, who has lots of people in his head and is also the invention of a fictional person who is also…
Continue readingI’m really enjoying writing Mr Tumnal’s story. On a scale of 1-10 of wonkiness its no. 11 and some, its so completely twisted and out there it actually makes sense, and love how I am referencing and acknowledging other things…
Continue readingI’ve been writing in present tense for so long now, I now find, as make the first tentative steps to Louis Tumnal’s story I’m finding that the natural choice for me is still present tense. This is awkward as I…
Continue reading(The Curious Tale of) Mr Tumnal is working its way into my mind. My problem with the story is that it is important to me that Louis Tumnal is a sympathetic and likeable character, but someone who cheats on his…
Continue readingHelen recently posted information about a new competition being run and I am tempted to enter Blood & Fire into it. Normally I am cautious about entering my WIP into a competition because of the fear that they will want…
Continue readingIâm currently reading Audrey Niffeneggerâs The Time Travellerâs Wife and Iâm loving it. Itâs uniquely original, and fantastic read. It is also incredibly wonky – in its constant switching between characters and times and its all told in the present…
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