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...

Getting Started

Added on 25 November 2007

Starting a novel is not unlike Monty Python's Novel Writing sketch. You sit at your desk, in front of a large crowd of people, who wait excitedly on your every word. Back in my heyday, of large film deals and newspapers camping on my doorstep, my first day of novel writing used to attract upwards of...

typical working week...

Added on 21 November 2007

A typical working week... On Monday One of Two, my eldest spawn, was off school with a bad cough, and so nothing got done. She's not the stick in front of the tv and she'll let you get on type. Not that I ever feel like being particularly creative when there's a child marauding around the house. Any...

Slow Start

Added on 14 November 2007

I suppose that if the last entry was Day One, then that makes this Day Six, more or less. Six days in, and if I'd been writing the Bridges of Madison County, I'd be half way through. Actually, I haven't even started yet. Not in any substantive putting pen to paper kind of a way. Haven't written a wo...

Day One

Added on 08 November 2007

It's time to get to work on a new book. I do this to a truncated timescale where as I act as editor and publisher and therefore don't have anyone to answer to. Give myself a tight deadline to make sure I sit down and get on with it, because I have no one else telling me to do it. The new book is cal...