Another Week Off

Added on 09 February 2008

Late on a Saturday night. School mid-term break is about to start, which means work on Lost In Juarez comes to a crashing halt. Maybe not a bad thing. I've done a tremendous amount in the last five weeks and the break won't do any harm. I'm getting to the thriller/action end of the manuscript. The c...

Chick Lit, Petrocelli & The Superbowl

Added on 04 February 2008

Cracking on at a rate of roughly ten thousand words a week, which was the post-Christmas plan. No real time for anything much else, like all the other site related things I was intending, such as more on-line readings and a Barney short story. Just not enough time to do everything which needs to be ...

Conspiracy

Added on 16 January 2008

I was wondering if Conspiracy Theory was one of those subjects which you can now do for GCSE at school or if there's one of those neophyte universities offering it at degree level in the UK. Wouldn't be surprised. Conspiracy Theory sounds like a real subject, like Chaos Theory or Quantum Theory. But...

The Bob Thing

Added on 04 January 2008

Schools are back, holiday over, back to work. In the pre-Christmas period I did a fair amount of faffing (phaphing) about. Publication of Lost in Juarez was well into the following year, so there felt no need to panic. Now, well publication is in eight months time, and I've barely got a tenth of the...

The Return of the Word Count Junky

Added on 08 December 2007

IWork has arrived with its word count facility, and so now I can go back to religiously checking every few minutes how many words I've written. I was surprised to find when I first transferred the book onto the programme that I'd written over 6,000 words so far. Obviously it's not that much, not com...