Right, one more post about writing before you all get bored (too late! – Ed.) and I go back to normal things. While writing most recently, I think I have gleaned three lessons. 1) You can’t write a concerto because you can hum You can hum, you can probably sing to some degree, you could [...]
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Three lessons from writing
Posted in Writing on July 10, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Writing Diary: Day 5
Posted in Writing, Writing Holiday on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So you know that thing about Sunday being a day of rest for certain people? That pretty much was what happened to me. I just couldn’t apply myself at all. In the whole day I wrote 1 page! That’s it. And boy did I feel all the better for it. So in the end I [...]
Writing Diary: Day 4
Posted in Writing, Writing Holiday on March 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
So I woke up on Saturday feeling rotten. My brain hurt a lot and I just couldn’t face anything at all. Certainly not writing. I decided that I needed some food and so I went out to get some breakfast from the place we call the greasy receipt. It is a non-greasy spoon which has [...]
Writing Diary: Day 3
Posted in Writing, Writing Holiday on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My good friend Nick Ollivère once told me the greatest piece of advice a writer can ever hear: “If it’s boring to write, it will be boring to read.” I have tried to live by that ever since. You want to keep yourself interested in your own project. But at the same time there are [...]
Writing Diary: Day 2
Posted in Writing, Writing Holiday on March 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
So day 2 is over now. If you haven’t a clue what’s going on you may want to check out: The introduction and Day 1. Yesterday was very tricky. I think I had tired out my brain with the writing that I had done on day 1. And as we all know a tired brain [...]
Writing Diary: Day 1
Posted in Writing, Writing Holiday on March 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
So day 1 is complete. Don’t worry about all the flannel how many pages did I write? I wrote 11 pages. So 1 more than target. Writing 11 pages was tough. I mean it wasn’t fighting in Iraq tough. But it was difficult to achieve. And I worry that doing another 10 today might be [...]
A writing holiday
Posted in Writing, Writing Holiday on March 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So. Writing eh? What larks, what fun! Over the next few days I’m going to have my first ever writing holiday. Not a holiday from writing, but rather a holiday to write. Katherine is off to Turkey to do some belly dancing* and so I’m going to attempt to get some writing done. I have [...]
Spare me a quarter
Posted in Articles, Novel, Writing on January 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
It’s January and I am a quarter of the way through the first draft of my new novel. That sounds really a lot better than it should. I conjures up ideas that make it seem like I might be finishing said draft by the end of April. No, it’s taken most of 2008 to get [...]
