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I first started writing the curious tale of Mr Tumnal during my honeymoon on 3 June 2009. A little over four year’s later, at 23:10 on Saturday 27 June 2013, I finished it. It is one-year to the day that…
Continue readingTrains and Lovers by Alexander McCall Smith I think everybody has met at least one person on a train and this is a story of four people who do just that; thrown together by chance and circumstance. For myself I met Carole…
Continue readingTrains and Lovers by Alexander McCall Smith I think everybody has met at least one person on a train and this is a story of four people who do just that; thrown together by chance and circumstance. For myself I met Carole…
Continue readingTo round off my Easter weekend Emma and I went for a walk down by the canal in the Spring sunshine. Whilst we were putting out boots on, a car drew up and parked with a cat lounging in the…
Continue readingTo round off my Easter weekend Emma and I went for a walk down by the canal in the Spring sunshine. Whilst we were putting out boots on, a car drew up and parked with a cat lounging in the…
Continue readingToday has been gorgeous in the extreme; cold but not freezing with the perfect light that only a Spring day can deliver. It’s been kind of day that makes you want to be alive. Of course it would been all…
Continue readingToday has been gorgeous in the extreme; cold but not freezing with the perfect light that only a Spring day can deliver. It’s been kind of day that makes you want to be alive. Of course it would been all…
Continue readingI’m enjoying being back with my story. I love it when my characters invade my every waking moment with their stories as they are doing at the moment. Of course it can be a slight problem in that I want…
Continue readingI haven’t had as many story dreams in recent times as I used to – historically some of my most creative stories from dreams and sometimes from my serial dreams. Last night I had a brilliant dream, the prospect of…
Continue readingWhen Mr Tumnal’s story first presented itself to me I thought it might be a short story, maybe a novella. I quickly realised that it had enough to be full story but I thought that it would still be very…
Continue readingClaire and I were talking at work today about how ideas for stories come about. She was telling me (and I hope she doesn’t mind me mentioning it here) about an sketchy idea that she had that might make a…
Continue readingUnless you are writing a thriller its always been the case that its usual to find some way of writing out the police, or have your protagonists in some way resolve the plot without the need for them. It can…
Continue readingMy story has been too complicated. Working through the reasons that Ódinn/Gyrdir/Gunnlaugr needs for the the story to work out, it actually is much simpler that you might think. What does Gunnlaugr want? He has been cast-out of his world…
Continue readingThis will almost certainly be dedicated for Caroline, for mishearing my comment about that autumnal Summer’s day…, for this is how the story that follows started life, a little after 7.30am on the daily drive to work. Over the half…
Continue readingThe hardshoulder thing actually gave me an idea for another novel – a ‘Road Book’ as it were: a story of a writer leaving his home (possibly in Edinburgh, although maybe it would be better being further north than that…
Continue readingThose of you who have read, or at least have a passing familiarity with, my current (and third) full-length novel, Blood & Fire will know that, faced with the need for Helen to have some non-family-friends, two characters from a…
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