butchering silk.

Feb 14, 2008 | Blog

I’ve had a joyous week each lunchtime, sat in cafés and pubs supping soup and gnawing sandwiches, hacking about my text. The plot is pretty much in order now, tho I’m seriously trying to find a way around not writing mountains of text to fix my problems,...

covering myself with lard.

Feb 4, 2008 | Blog, Writing

Today a breakthrough. And by a breakthrough, I mean a discovery of where to go for inspiration, when the shear thought of starting to rewrite an acre of pages becomes an ocean of stinging jellyfish and all you have to protect yourself is a pair of speedos and a layer...

write out of my head

Feb 3, 2008 | Blog, Writing

I have to admit. I’m struggling now. I feel like I’ve created a monster… a really disjointed, choppy, bitty monster, that needs loads of love and attention to understand, figure out and make sense of. And I’m not looking forward to it....

I have a way with words.

Jan 27, 2008 | Blog, Writing

Its not a great ‘way’ atm, but I’m getting there. I have a passion for writing better, understanding words, sentences and passage structure. I want to write, I want to be read and I want my words to be well received. Currently I very shy of what I...

Book written… now what?

Jan 27, 2008 | Blog, Writing

Its been a while. Months to be precise. Wanna know whats been happening? Well, in Dec… I wrote my first full length fictional document (I’m hesitating calling it a novel)… but yeah, I did it! I used the nanowrimo technique of 1667 words a day for 30...

the plateau

Nov 28, 2007 | Blog

The urge to write is fading. I knew it would. I’m glad it has. I can now assess my normal motivation level without the presence of excitment and ‘newness’. I feared I would start writing whilst highly motivated and continue for weeks until I’d...