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As I write my way towards the mid-point in the story, we find out that the complicated relationship Kathryn Summers has with Louis Tumnal is about to get a bit more complicated… 34451 / 80000 words. 43% done!
Continue readingHanna stood on the edge of the stage. Slowly she lowered the microphone to her side, listening to the last bars of the songs die away as the lights swooped and fell across the stage, and faded into darkness. Out…
Continue readingNot, it should be said, my novel, but Louis’ life. The good things in his life are coming to a head and things are about to get more complicated for Mr Tumnal. 32676 / 80000 words. 41% done!
Continue readingMet 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 readingI’m going to write about Fire & Hemlock again, but this time from the perspective of the writer, ispired to write because of it. One of the things I love about Fire & Hemlock is its rich use of source…
Continue readingBack in the hayday of this journal I would be writing proper journal entries almost daily, sometimes more often, and I had a small but active following and steady set of comment discussions aobut this and that. That was then….
Continue readingI would love to know how this website works, and whether there was any serious analysis/algorithm thing going on behind it, or if it is just a piece of fun. I write likeJ. K. Rowling I Write Like by Mémoires,…
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 readingI was beginning to think it might be time to start chasing the last batch of agents whom I submitted The End of All Worlds, it being almost exactly two months since I despatched them to languish in the virtual…
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 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 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…
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