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...

A Slow Mince

Added on 01 December 2007

Have been going at a steady pace. Usually I like to leap into books and write a quarter of it in the first ten minutes, get the foundations down, so that it feels like a book as quickly as possible. It's the same principle as having mid-week games in the first week of the Premier League, so that wit...