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A 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…
Continue readingAfter 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 readingThis 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. My work on Mr…
Continue readingWhilst driving home yesterday, my mind turned to my 1999 work, The Mill. Originally a film script, later the sketchiest of novels, currently available for free online and unlinked and complete with horrendous spelling and grammatical errors and inconsistencies, the…
Continue readingI’ve been yearning all weekend to sit down with my pen and my book and write more of Mr Tumnal’s story, and yet I haven’t quite got there. I haven’t wasted time, far from it (see my earlier post), its…
Continue readingSo, the amazon kindle is now available in the UK and of course the hype has all been around whether this is the final end to the traditional book. To which, as any reasonable person will reply, the answer is…
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 readingMy lunchtime split of reading a book whilst eating my sandwiches and fruit, and then writing Mr Tumnal whilst eating my geobar is working well. Slow but steady, I am making progress in his curious and mixed up story! 🙂…
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